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My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.
You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?
There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.
Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.
The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.
Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.