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CLAIM YOUR PROMISEThe Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice overyou with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you wi

th singing. - (Zephaniah 3:17)

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken....Although its light is wide and great,the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.

The whole moon and the entire skyare reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dogen

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."

There is no place in Buddhism for using effort.Just be ordinary and nothing special.Relieve your bowels, pass water,...put on your clothes, and eat your food.When you're tired, go and lie down.Ignorant people will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Lin Chi

Buddhism promises nothing. It teaches us to be what we are, where we are, constantly, and it teaches us to relate to our living situations accordingly. That seems to be the way to proceed on our highway without being distracted by the sidetracks and exits of all kinds. The signs say: "Tibetan Village, ...next exit"; Japanese Village, next exit"; Nirvana, next exit"; Enlightenment, next exit -- instant one"; Disneyland, next exit." You get what you are promised. But after having gone to Disneyland or having taken part in the Nirvana Festival, then you have to think about how you are going to get back to your car, how you are going toget home. This means you have to get back on the highway once more. It is unavo

idable.

From "The Eightfold Path," in The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

Immovable Mindby Yung-ming Yen-shou

You wish to know the spirit of Yung-ming Zen?Look at the lake in front of the gate....When the sun shines, it radiates light and brightness,When the wind comes, there arise ripples and waves.

from The Golden Age of Zen

To what shall I compare this life of ours?Even before I can say

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it is like a lightning flash or a dewdropit is no more....- Sengai

?"Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with y

our heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul."

Chuang Tzu

as human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happinessthere is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment tha...tis the problem, not the pleasure themselves"

Lama Thubten Yeshe

Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.Sogyal Rinpoche

n Leadership

A leader leads by example whether he intends to or not. -Unknown

Nothing is as important as what you actually do. Not your intentions, not your promises, not your suggestions.

...Today is your opportunity to put thoughts and words into deeds. Not because people are watching; not because they may follow your lead, but solely because the doing, in itself, can make a difference in the world. What you do from day to daymatters if you make it matter.

You never know how todays kindness, generosity, integrity, or ingenuity will ripple into tomorrow.

What example will you set today?Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.-Thich Nhat HanhIf in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we,but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Nhat Hanh

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a realenemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Nhat Hanh

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.Nhat Hanh

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and seepositive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?Nhat Hanh

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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will nothave peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missilesthat we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can bethe source of your joy.Nhat Hanh

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.Nhat Hanh

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.Nhat Hanh

Nothing can match the strength of those whose lives have been shaped and forgedthrough challenging and overcoming hardships. Such people fear nothing. The purpose of our Buddhist practice is to develop such strength and fortitude. To cultivate such an invincible core is in itself a victory. It is also the greatest benefit. Those who ...can succeed in this endeavor will savor unsurpassed happiness; they can manifest the supreme state of Buddhahood.

- Daisaku IkedaOn Ends & Beginnings

Letting go isnt the end of the world; its the beginning of a new life. -Unknown

When youve loved every moment of an experience, it can feel like a death to watchit fade into yesterday.

...When a relationship ends, it might feel like youll never love or smile again. When a job ends, you might think youll never feel fulfilled in your work again.

You will. Just like every experience is impermanent, every feeling eventually fades and morphs into something else. Happiness becomes sadness becomes happinessagain.

If youre willing to let go of yesterday and stay open to possibilities today, youjust may be surprised by how much you gain after a loss.

What new world might you be creating today?

Do not pursue the past.Do not lose yourself in the future.The past no longer is.The future has not yet come.Looking deeply at life as it is....In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.We must be diligent today.To wait until tomorrow is too late.Death comes unexpectedly.How can we bargain with it?

The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day,'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

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- Bhaddekaratta Suttao be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself.To forgive others is to be good to yourself.

- Master ChengYen

I am the master of my own mind,

The bases of power are well developed;I am freed from every kind of bondage,Therefore I don't fear you, friend.

... Bhikkhuni Uppalavanna

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able totrim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds th

e lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

= BuddhaThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can d

o to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respectto look at ourselves honestly and gently."

- Pema ChodranIf you talk much, this will make you deaf to what others say,and you should know that there are few so wise thatthey cannot learn from others.

Be near when help is needed, but far when praise and thanks are being offered....Take small account of might, wealth and fame, for they soon pass and are forgotten.

- Dhammavadaka

"Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me."

Siddhartha GautamaLet your love flow outward through the universe,To its height, its depth, its broad extent,A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.Then as you stand or walk,Sit or lie down,...As long as you are awake,Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;Your life will bring heaven to earth.

- Sutta Nipata

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, hiswords are peace and his work is peace.

- DhammapadaDo not try to become anything.Do not make yourself into anything.Do not be a meditator.Do not become enlightened.When you sit, let it be....What you walk, let it be.

Grasp at nothing.Resist nothing.If you havent wept deeply, you havent begun to meditate.

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- Ajhan ChahAll things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.Nothing ever exists entirely alone;everything is in relation to everything else.

- BuddhaBUDDHA BLESSIf your spiritual practice and the demands of your everyday life are not in harmony, it means there's something wrong with the way you are practicing.Your practice should satisfy your dissatisfied mind while providing solutions tothe problems of everyday life.

If it doesn't, check carefully to see what you really understand about yo...ur religious practice.

- Lama Yeshe

Let your love flow outward through the universe,

To its height, its depth, its broad extent,A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.Then as you stand or walk,Sit or lie down,...As long as you are awake,Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;Your life will bring heaven to earth.

- Sutta Nipata

My place is on cold mountainperched on a cliff beyond the circuit of afflictionimages leave no trace when they vanish

I roam the whole galaxy from herelights and shadows flash across my mind...not one dharma comes before mesince I found the magic pearlI can go anywhere, everywhere its perfect

- Han Shan

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,and the life of the candle will not be shortened.Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Sutta Nipata

Encountering sufferings will definitely contributeto the elevation of your spiritual practice,provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortuneinto the path.

...- DzogchenManifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

...- Lao-TzuWhat is this world condition?Body is the world condition.

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And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness,and all the activities throughout the world.The arising of form and the ceasing of form ---...everything that has been heard, sensed, and known,sought after and reached by the mind ---all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

- Samyutta Nikaya

GATE, GATE, PARAGATE, PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA: Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond. What ecstasy! Alleluia!STHIR SUKHAM ASANAM"The Hadiqa' is the essential fragrance of the path of love. Just as Sosan has been able to catch the very soul of Zen, Hakim Sanai has been able to catch the very soul of Sufism.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion.Whatever one does must emerge from an attitudeof love and benefitting others.

- MilarepaBelieve nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, noteven if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and yourown common sense. Buddha

In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six sensesis an inkblot test.You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.

- Shiqin

One is all; all are one.

When you realize this,what reason for holiness or wisdom?The mind of absolute trustis beyond all thought, all striving,...is perfectly at peace, for in itthere is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.

- Sent-Ts'anThere are thousands upon thousands of studentswho have practised meditation and obtained its fruits.Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method.If you can not find the truth right where you are,where else do you expect to find it?...DogenOur modern Western culture only recognises the first of these,freedom of desires.It then worships such a freedom by enshrining itat the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies...is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires,as far as this is possible.It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free.

The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires,is celebrated only in some religious communities.It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

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- Ajahn BrahmIn the sky,there is no distinction of east and west;people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

- BuddhaWhen one does what Buddhas do, one is a Buddha.When one does what Bodhisattvas do, one is a Bodhisattva.When one does what Arhats do, one is an Arhat.When one does what ghosts do, one is a ghost.These are all natural phenomena.There are no shortcuts in cultivation.If you wish others to know about your good deeds,they are not truly good deeds.If you fear others will find out about your bad deeds,those are truly bad deeds.

- Master Hsuan HuaThe greatest achievement is selflessness.The greatest worth is self-mastery.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest precept is continual awareness.The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything....The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.The greatest generosity is non-attachment.The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.The greatest patience is humility.The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

- AtishaThe purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

- DzogchenWhen we trust with our open heart, whatever occurs, at the very moment that it occurs, can be perceived as fresh and unstained by the clouds of hope and fear. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche used the phrase, "first thought, best thought" to referto that first moment of fresh perception, before the colorful and coloring clouds of judgment an...d personal interpretation take over.

"First thought" is "best thought" because it has not yet got covered over by allour opinions and interpretations, our hopes and fears, our likes and dislikes.

It is direct perception of the world as it is. Sometimes we discover "first thought, best thought" by relaxing into the present moment in a very simple way.

Jeremy HaywardThe only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that theytrigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.

To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

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- Pema ChodronThe perfection of generosity is said to beThe thought to give all beings everything,Together with the fruit of such a thought.Hence, it is simply a state of mind.

...- Santideva Bodhicaryavatara

"Truth is not a belief, it is utter intelligence. It is a flare-up of the hiddensources of your life, it is an enlightening experience of your consciousness. B

ut you will have to give the right space for it to happen.And the right space is accepting yourself as you are." Osho

# What you don't know, if you accept that you do not know it, there will be growth - - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Friday, December 11, 2009 6:07:36 PM via web

# If you have to do something that you do not like, you can only do it consciously; there is no other way to do it - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Wednesday, December02, 2009 10:03:46 PM via web

# You have become a disciple of the devil if your whole life is about making deals. The devil is always making a deal with somebody - Jaggi Monday, November 30,2009 10:48:59 PM via web

# You believe in things that you have not seen and experienced. This has becomethe basis of all conflict - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Friday, November 27, 2009 10:45:03 PM via web

# The complexities that one encounters on the spiritual path aren't because of the path, Only because of the mess that is your mind - Jaggi Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:27:32 PM via web

# Accepting the other team is most important. When acceptance is total, there isno more Opposition - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Monday, November 23, 2009 5:43:05

PM via web

# The closer the relationship is, the more effort you should make to understandthem. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Friday, November 20, 2009 10:51:22 PM via web

# If you are seeking something beyond survival, then the sense perceptions are not enough - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:58:17 PM viaweb

# Without being capable of bringing peace into your life, there's no way you'regoing to be capable of bringing peace to the world - Jaggi Monday, November 16,2009 6:05:31 PM via web

# Once the stillness comes into your life, then the mind also becomes absolutelystill. At the time your intelligence explodes -Sadhguru Jaggi Sunday, November

15, 2009 11:23:06 PM via web

# Genuine or fake guru? Whether its halogen or candlelight, when it lights up, itclears the darkness. Rest is not your problem - Jaggi Saturday, November 14, 20

09 12:45:45 PM via web

# Intelligence is like a flashlight. If you flash it, itll just show you whats infront - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Friday, November 13, 2009 11:38:31 AM via web

# As we have physical science to create external well-being there is a whole inner dimension of science to create inner well being - Sadhguru Thursday, November

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12, 2009 11:22:55 AM via web

# This life for me is an endeavor to help people experience and express their divinity. May you know the bliss of the divine - Sadhguru Jaggi Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:53:30 AM via web

# If you are deeply involved with the simplest aspects of your life, you will se

e every aspect of your life as spectacular - Sadhguru Jaggi Monday, November 09,2009 10:46:35 PM via web

# Work is an expression of who you are. So who you are is what needs to be worked out - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:59:16 PM via web

# Karma can be compared to a seed, they are just waiting for the right kind of atmosphere to take effect - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Friday, November 06, 2009 10:08:42 AM via web

# Religions of the world are not about one mans belief against another, but an opportunity for all humans to their own ultimate source- Jaggi Thursday, November

05, 2009 3:47:02 PM via web

# If something is easily attainable, people go for it. Not really seeing whetherthey really need it in their lives or not - Sadhguru Jaggi Wednesday, November

04, 2009 11:19:03 PM via web

# What you call 'life' itself is energy. So, if you want to function on a higherplane of life, you need a higher quality of energy - Jaggi Wednesday, November

04, 2009 10:31:07 AM via web

# Unfortunately most people are still lame. They always need a stick to walk. Without a crutch they cannot walk - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 10:34 AM Nov 2nd, 2009via web

# A spiritual process is neither an invention, nor something that you create. Itis just a life process - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 9:56 AM Oct 30th, 2009 via web

# When you wanting to know some thing is so Intense that you are willing to diefor it, then knowing is not far away - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev 5:18 PM Oct 28th,2009 via web

# Personality means the mask that, got stuck to your face! after some time yourenot able to take off the mask - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 5:57 PM Oct 27th, 2009 via web

# In the process of trying to be happy, we are destroying the world; but still it is not happy - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 9:55 AM Oct 26th, 2009 via web

# Personality means the mask that you are holding, got stuck to your face!, yourenot able to take off the mask after some time - Sadhguru 2:57 PM Oct 23rd, 2009via web

# Just Desire the Hightest in Life. All Your Passions, direct them to the Highest - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 9:36 AM Oct 22nd, 2009 via web

# When you are angry then you cannot be loving, you cant suddenly turn your anger into love, but the anger itself can be directed - Jaggi 5:59 PM Oct 20th, 2009via web

# Do you know that you can play with culture because it is purely subjective? Culture is a science - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 4:52 PM Oct 19th, 2009 via web

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# Once the stillness comes into your life, then the mind also becomes absolutelystill. Then your intelligence explodes - Jaggi Vasudev. 10:04 PM Oct 17th, 2009via web

# Whenever you are happy, the real source of happiness is within you - SadhguruJaggi Vasudev. 11:48 PM Oct 14th, 2009 via web

# Positive thinking is about trying to escape reality - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.5:46 PM Oct 13th, 2009 via web

# Just educate your passions, educate your desires to flow in the right direction, that is all. Fighting them will be a waste of life. - Jaggi 11:01 PM Oct 10th, 2009 via web

# To play certain roles, you put on a mask, and after some time, youre not able to take off the mask. That is a personality - Jaggi Vasudev. 11:10 PM Oct 9th, 2009 via web

# You should have built your personality very consciously, but unfortunately formost people, over 90% built unconsciously. - Jaggi Vasudev. 6:19 PM Oct 8th, 2009 via web

# One of the basic qualities of meditation is, it creates a distance between youand your personality - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 7:01 PM Oct 7th, 2009 via web

# Individual transformation is the way to global transformation - Sadhguru JaggiVasudev. 12:41 PM Oct 6th, 2009 via web

# As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, many religionsof the world are an expression of the same divine source. 9:08 AM Oct 5th, 2009via web

# A world full of love, light and laughter - its time has come --- - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 12:23 PM Oct 1st, 2009 via web

# Nothing to do with moralitythe maximum damage to this world has been done withgood intensions. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.# Spirituality is about acting out of your inner humanity, if you go deeper, youll be acting out of inner divinity. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 12:05 PM Sep 29th,2009 via web

# Mind is just a garbage bin. --- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. 12:02 AM Sep 25th, 2009 via web

# How can you love one and hate the other, when the same divine exists in all. 5:10 PM Sep 23rd, 2009 via web

If you are rooted in reality there will be no fear.If you can joyfully accept the consequence, do what you want; if it is that youwill cry when the consequence comes, better be conscious about what you do.

A genuine seeker, a person who develops an urge within, will always find his Guru. He may find it in a man, in a woman, or he may find it even in a rock. He will definitely find it somewhere, there is no doubt about it.If a man is intelligent everything that happens is an opportunity; if a man is s

tupid everything that happens is a disaster.Life is far beyond meaning, Life is beyond meaning and that's why it is so beautiful

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xternal well being? How do you expect it to work?

Whenever you are happy, the real source of happiness is within you. It bubblesup. It is just that you are looking for an external stimulus to make you happy.

The guru is someone who continuously punctures your ego, yet is your friend. Ifyou really want better situations to live in for yourself and everybody, you mus

t stop playing petty politics within yourself and around yourself.

Only when you truly start seeking what is beyond the physical body, the spiritual processes open up for you.

Positive thinking is about trying to escape reality. Its about wanting to look atone side of life, and missing out on another. You may ignore the other, but theother will not ignore you. Right now, you can choose to ignore a black cloud inthe sky, but its not going to ignore you

If you want to know the joy of activity, first and foremost thing is that youmust know how to give yourself to activity with total abandon.

The world is trying to do so many things. We're trying to go to the moon, to Mars, but, fundamentally, I feel the most important thing is human consciousness, the quality of life here. How happy we are here simply depends on how we are within ourselves.

Fundamentally, the only thing you can give is yourself.

Blissfulness is not a rare visitor in your life, blissfulness is your constant companion, because that is the nature of your being.

Spirituality is about acting out of your inner humanity, if you go deeper, youllbe acting out of inner divinity.

As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, many religions of the world are an expression of the same divine source.

The word guru means dispeller of darkness.

What you know as the highest, you just seek that. It doesnt matter whether it isgoing to happen or not going to happen, simply living with the vision itself isvery elevating, is itself very liberating, is itself a very joyous process for any person.

Every human being is a unique human being

When your Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) is based on hope and fear, you won't attain to anything.

Do your Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) joyfully, not with the hope of making it orthe fear of not making it. Just do it joyfully.

You are not using your intelligence to reach the peak of your consciousness, tobecome peaceful and loving. You are using your intelligence to drive yourself crazy.You know everything about the world, but you do not know anything about yourself. This is a ridiculous way to live.

Spiritual process does not mean looking up, or looking down, or looking around.

It is about looking inward.

When it is no more about you, you can live your life and do your life in total a

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bandon; because there is nothing to gain nothing to lose.You being too involved with your mind and emotion means you are too enamored with your own creation, you have no time for the creation of the creator.

Because you do not know how to keep your systems in balance, because you cant handle reality, you succumb to positive thinking. You want to skip the negative and

just think positive. What you pursue will not be the strongest point in you. What you try to avoid becomes the basis of your consciousness. Positive thinking can have some psychological relevance, but no existential relevance whatsoever.

If you look at the organization, capability and the certainty with which a simple ant is conducting its life, you will see you are quite stupid.

Wanting to be special is a sickness, it is taking a huge toll on life. In tryingto be special, people are doing all kinds of ridiculous things.

The greatest crime that you can do to humanity is to teach your children that suffering is a part of their life. You have taken away the possibility of them being joyous human beings.

In relinquishing the limited, the unlimited becomes yours, But the price is, what is YOU does not exist anymore.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

If you are not half hearted, if you are a full blooded involvement with everything that you are doing you will see every simple thing is a miracle.

When you become meditative, you will see, your intellectual capabilities will increase many times more than what it is right now. Not because meditation makes you intelligent, but because meditation clears up the mess, the muck thats gathered on the glass of the flashlight. As your meditation deepens, it just clears upthe muck more and more and the flashlight becomes more and more powerful. It shows you things more and more clearly.

Whether we are talking about Kundalini or simple plain energy as in the Englishlanguage, it's basically about raising ourselves to a higher level of energy. What you call 'life' itself is energy. So, if you want to function on a higher plane of life, you need a higher level, a higher quality of energy.

The contradiction within a human being is simply because he is trying to mentally figure out things that he has not experienced.

Only when people begin to thing beyond their own wellbeing, something beautifulis possible in the society.Exploration is what is needed - not ideology. Ideology means you have made your

summary of life. If life can be summed up, it is not worth living.

If you are aware that you are a nobody and you act out your role, this is enligh

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tenment.

Only when you are truly happy, you can be concerned about somebody. When you areunhappy you are only concerned about yourself.

Once you know how to be aware, once the neccessary awareness - to be away from your own body, to be away from your own mind - has come to you, don't even botherabout your karmas. Just see how to deepen this awareness.

We know how to go to the moon, but the tragedy is that we still do not know howto live on planet earth.

By fixing the outside, life can become comfortable and convenient. But human beings will not know well being unless they fix their interiority.

Once you have a thinking mind, a questioning mind, or a doubting mind, you should not talk about devotion. It just leads to enormous deception.

Confidence can do things for you but confidence without clarity is a big disaster on the planet.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are alwaysdead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Every human being is capable of living absolutely blissfully within himself. They have denied themselves this because they never looked at themselves.

What you can do and what you cannot do outside is always a question of capability. But when it comes to the inside it is just a question of willingness.

If you can bring love into your breath, into your step, into every act that youdo, not towards anybody or anything; if you can just bring the longing to mergewith everything around you, then creation will lead you on to the creator.

The past experience of life is ruling you from within. Unless you break this karmic grip there is no such thing as freedom in thought and action.

Essence of spirituality is that we are constantly aware of the oneness of who weare, at the same time we celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

If you are not seeing life the way it is, you can only live by accident. You area potential calamity and fear and anxiety is very natural.

Anything that does not enhance the possibility of life is of no consequence to the creation, or to the creator.

If you really pay attention to life, life will blossom within you. If you do notpay attention, you are somewhere else, then life could go wrong.

If you know that you are stupid, you wont attach too much importance to your tho

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ught. You will start looking at life and your intelligence will flower.

You claim that you love somebody, but if they dont fulfill your needs, you wontlove them. I dont call this love, I call this mutual benefit scheme.

Everybody is making Choices; even their compulsions are their choices. Choices made in unawareness are compulsions. Let us say you get angry right now. It is your choice, actually, to be angry. Somewhere, you believe that's the way to handle the situation, but the choice is made in such unawareness that is is a compulsion; it's happening compulsively on a different level. So you are living by choice, but choices are made with out awareness - unconscious choices.

If you cultivate your body, mind, emotion and energy in the right direction, mediation will happen. It is not something that you do, it is a quality.

Everyday, twice a day if you are reminded that you will also die, then naturallyyou will move towards knowing higher dimensions of perception.

If your experience of life transcends the limitations of the physical, only thenwe can say you are spiritual.

Only if one makes himself available to higher and higher possibilies, then Gracecan descend and do something that you yourself could never do.

If you have any intention of knowing or touching the ultimate in this life, then

giving yourself in parts is no good.

A devotee has no other goal except to dissolve into his object of devotion. Butyou have your own personal agenda and still you call yourself a devotee.

Everybody has their own understanding, ideas, opinions of the world. They know these are not worth anything, yet they are not willing to keep it down.Your desires and passions are just like this. If you try and fight with them, ifyou chop them, they will spill blood, and with every drop, a hundred or a thous

and will come up. There is no point fighting them. Just educate your passions, educate your desires to flow in the right direction, that is all. You can never fight them. Fighting them will be futile, it will be a waste of life. .

With every single action, consciously or unconsciously, people are trying to behappy. So one way, in this level of living, in this dimension of existence, happiness is the goal of everything that man is doing. But if you look at life, we have done so much in this world for our happiness. But all we have ended up withis creating more and more comfort and convenience-but not happiness.

Without working on human consciousness, trying to change social or national or global realities means there is no serious intention.

When we say everything is maya or illusion, maya does not mean it does not exist, maya simply means that you are not seeing it the way it is.

If YOU are not there, enlightenment is instantaneous. If YOU are there, you haveto walk till you wear out.

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In reality there is only Now. If you know how to handle this moment you know howto handle the whole eternity.

When any being calls or really yearns, the existence answers. If the thirst within you is strong enough, God always answers. Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.

When you just look at the long term span of this creation, you are just a tiny happening. But you think too much of yourself, that is the biggest problem.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

- BuddhaWe pray for our life of tomorrow,Ephemeral life though it be;This is the habit of our mindThat passed away yesterday.

- IkkyuThe sound of the watersays what I think.

Lao TzuIn the morning, bowing to all;In the evening, bowing to all.Respecting others is my only duty--Hail to the Never-despising Bodhisattva.

...In heaven and earth he stands alone.

A real monkNeedsOnly one thing--a heart likeNever-despising Buddha.

- RyokanWhen you hear the splashOf the water drops that fallInto the stone bowl,You will feel that all the dustOf your mind is washed away....- Zen Tea MasterYou're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

- Pema ChodronThe man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

- Buddha