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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.
There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.
The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.
Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.
Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.
A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.
You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.
A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.
Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.
It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.
Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.
The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.
You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.
Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.
If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.