Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety
Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.
All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.
Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.
Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.
It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls. . . and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.