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Once we erase ourselves, then there's no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We've awakened from the dream and the dream has faded.
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.
The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.