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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.
We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.
As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.
How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.
When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.
When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.
Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.