What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
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.
The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.