Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic.
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic. " 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give up pride and self-delusion; (3) Practice loving kindness; (4) Give up anger, hatred and vindictiveness; (5) Practice generosity; (6) Avoid greed and stealing in its different aspects; (7) Practice honesty; (8) Avoid maliciousness and exploiting lies; (9)Practice moderation; (10) Avoid excessiveness; (11) Do not allow yourself to be enslaved by your lower nature
Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.
Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!
When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.
Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.