You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.
Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it’s correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.
Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They’re subjective reflections.
It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.
In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.
Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person’s chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.
Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
No lifetime is a loss if you’ve leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.
Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
You’re bound by the frame. You’ve become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you’re sitting there watching.
Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.
Meditation is a process in which we’re essentially, at first, breathing out. We’re exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.
If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.
We all have auras. But it’s much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.
You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.