Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
The real does not die, the unreal never lived.
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. "I Am That" - pg 188
You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
The older you get, the more you learn.