191 quotes found
“You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell...”
“What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.”
“If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.”
“Ironically, to inspire means to breathe, to infuse life by breathing. As with a lot of things that have the capacity to inspire, it takes some time to get past the apparent boredom and find the hid...”
“We have been trained to feel shame and guilt basically as a means to cause fear and hesitation, to control behavior, or to oppress real freedom and joy. The origins of that are communal fear, jealo...”
“In terms of achieving what I call being in the right place at the right time, one has to know balance. Not from the outside as an observer, but from the inside out. For every individual, that requi...”
“Breathing is the fundamental act of being alive. One can go without thoughts, emotions or sensations, sleeping, talking or any other activity for a long time, without food for weeks, without water ...”
“Theres a long tradition in many disciplines regarding the breath, so Im certainly not the first to suggest its importance. Unfortunately, though, having so much tradition, that gives the sense to m...”
“I think that as a species weve played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring.”
“Historically, techniques to attain altered states of consciousness, usually called meditation, or sometimes prayer, actually involve various forms of concentration, the first level of this kind of ...”
“Meditation, in contrast, is the accidental moments of actual harmony that arrive anyway when you are trying to get something, even in trying to get harmony or calm. This often happens outside of th...”
“Contemplation is purer still, yet more sophisticated. This comes from a strongly developed base of concentrationbasically, constancythrough any temptation, including altered states of consciousness...”
“Accurately perceiving and following ones intuition is, I think, the essential human spiritual process. The distractions, confusion, misinterpretations and temptations that oppose that process are e...”
“More focus has been placed on these subjects through human history than on anything elsemystery and mysticism, God, imagination, intuition, the nature of relationships, human purpose, happiness and...”
“In the construction of ones life, we define ourselves largely by the problems we engage and the debts we incur. The greater and more sophisticated the problems, the greater and more sophisticated t...”
“The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it be...”
“Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.”
“Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so. You transform what exists, causing not only i...”
“There are so many stereotypes, prepackaged concepts and platitudes out there in our thinking on the divine, and the associated emotions those produce; its very difficult to transcend. But thats ult...”
“The purest definition of religious is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.”
