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If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.
You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.
In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.
There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.
Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else.
I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.
Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.
We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.
At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.
OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.
There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.
I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.
For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.
Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.
Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.