My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
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.
I keep my eyes and heart bent toward Jesus, therefore no human response can distract me from the Kingdom agenda.
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.
People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.