Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
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.
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me. . . Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.