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One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.
the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.
All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.
Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.
When you meditate your body shouldn't move. Some people get into this kundalini sway business. Your body shouldn't move.
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.
A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.