How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding. . . if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.
As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.
Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.
The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.
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 result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat. , Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex. ]
Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.
In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.