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This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.
If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.
What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.
If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.
There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.
Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.
I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.
You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.
If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.
Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.
Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.
There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.
When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.