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Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.
When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.
Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.
In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.
When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.
He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.
Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.
Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.
Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.