And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.
Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.
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.
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.
Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.