People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction. '
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.