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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.
Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.
They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.
We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.
Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?
Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.
There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.
Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.
In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.
If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.