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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.
That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!
It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.
The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.
Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.
I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.
The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.
If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.
The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.
Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.
Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.
Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.
People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.
The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.
Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.
Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.
The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.