After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?
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.
In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.
I only enjoy legs day! For my training, it's sort of vital and I've learned to love it, I think.
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.