Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.
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.
Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.