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A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.
You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.
All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.
You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.
Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.
The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.
Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.
Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.
When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.