I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon. But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot. "Abandon instead your personal fears and desires. . . and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.
It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.