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We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.
A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.
Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.
A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!
I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.
I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.
Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.
I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.
What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.
The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.