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Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Be conscious of the way people take your energy and learn how to stop it. Accept that this goes on. Observe how you feel around other people.
There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.
Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.
The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.
When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.
Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.
Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.
Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a number of other areas.
Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.
The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.
Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.
Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.
I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'
I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.
What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so.
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.