The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.
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 think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, blackwhite, malefemale, nightday, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?