The great difference between joy and fear is simple: Joy can take place in all

three time zones past, present, and future. Whereas fear is only of what is
going to happen (to us) in the future.
We cannot be afraid of the past. If we are afraid of something in the present it is
really because of what we fear might happen in the next moment, hour, year
On the other hand, one can have a joyful memory, a joyful now, and the joy that
comes from expecting something great in the future.
Put another way, fear can only live in the abstract. Joy lives in both the abstract
and the concrete.
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Call attention to who you are by your work, your imagination or your creativity.
Not by a loud voice, what you wear or own.
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On line at the check out in the super market, I watch as an old woman digs in her
purse for every last coin in there to pay for the few items she has bought. A well
dressed, clearly affluent man standing behind her watches. Very gently he says
Dont worry Ill take care of the rest, and reaches into his pocket to pay for
her things. Thank you, but no the old woman says to him and is not smiling.
Instead she tells the cashier to put aside a container of sour cream she had
planned to buy but now wouldnt. Putting her three purchases into a bag and without
looking at the man again, she left. The man was embarrassed. The cashier told him
not to mind this was the second time that had happened with the woman. The guy
shrugged and walked out of the store. Ive been thinking about the scene since it
happened. The small kindness of the mans gesture, the old woman with her pride,
the cashier who remembered that it had happened before.
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The imagination really is most alive when it is not in control of things; flying
through the air without a safety net below to catch it. To live surrounded by
wonder means the unknown and the dangerous also surround you as well.
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People make the mistake of thinking it is a sign of weakness to admit you are wrong
and then apologize. If anything, it is a sign of admirable strength.
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Bad love affairs, bad timing, bad mood, bad breath, bad dog We live our days
moving through varieties of bad. But it is mostly a minor thing, mundane shit on
the bottom of your shoe stuff. A bad taste, a bad kisser, the bad view which
permits us to see just enough to annoy us that we cant see more. They are all
minor irritants, dust-in-the-eye sort of annoyances. Because the word itself
carries little psychic weight anymore. Bad is todays verbal shrug. In contrast,
in the old days if you said someone was a bad woman, that one word in certain
contexts could ruin a person. Now if you say she is a bad woman, youre asked to be
more specific. We rarely raise an eyebrow or a fuss when bad barges into our lives
again. We dont jump back or stagger when faced with bad smells, bad breaks, bad
advice. Maybe we blink or pause but then we continue, inured by life to whatever
bad has stepped in front of us.. Bad in any form is rarely powerful enough to
knock us out or stop us cold. At heart it has become a wannabe, a pretender to the
throne, the player who sits on the bench the whole season because hes simply not
good enough to be in the starting lineup. I hope one day the same thing happens to
the word awesome.
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When any current moment is over, it immediately begins to lose all shape and color.
Like a fish pulled out of water and left to die on land, its colors pale and it
flops helplessly around until its life energy ebbs beyond a certain point and it
dies. However, there are some moments that refuse to die. As they weaken, they
stumble and lurch through the now, wreaking havoc. Colliding with lives and events,
they leave their mark, aroma, their scales, on everything they touch.
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Memory is weightless, yet sometimes it weighs a thousand kilos.
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 Sometimes healing (or in other cases, forgiving) are like desert islands far out
to sea. To be saved, we must swim long distances to reach them and for some, that
distance is just too far and they drown.
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Some of the most dangerous things are weightless fire, love, regret
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The mind is like a detective it wants facts and figures. But the heart, its
perennial sidekick, keeps shaking its head and smiling: There was no way in the
world they were going to find the facts and crack this case.
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Liars usually follow a strict diet of forgetfulness and convenient history. Once
in a while they indulge in a dessert of rich bullshit, but thats just on special
occasions.
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Your greatest gift to the human legacy is the achievement of an open, questing
mind, which is at home with the rapid reconsideration of reality steadily
redefining the course of human experience.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life
Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of
immortality.
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You dont ever have to feel Guilty about Removing toxic people from your life. It
doesnt matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer,
childhood friend or new acquaintance- You dont have to make room for people who
cause you pain or make you feel small. Its one thing if a person owns up to their
behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person Disregards your Feelings,
ignores your boundaries, and CONTINUES to treat you in a Harmful way, they have
to go

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Youve Survived a lot & you will Survive whatever is coming.. Dont let the past
determine how you live today or impact on how you prepare and create your future.~
Learn from the past, forgive, let go! Live every moment here and now, and the
future will unfold with joy and grace Breathe ~ Smile ~ Relax ~ Let Go ~ Create ~
Embrace the LIGHT. Shine ON! ? Namaste
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Sometimes only one drop is enough to overflow.
Sometimes only one spark is enough for the fire to spread. Sometimes a speck is
enough to bother you. Sometimes the path is not straight, they are made of curves
and slopes below. Sometimes a kiss doesnt heal, it takes more than one, millions.
Sometimes a bond becomes a knot. Sometimes you dont need music to dance. Sometimes
the tear is not just sadness, it lives in the joys. Sometimes the cure is in the
disease itself. Sometimes silence speaks louder than a scream.
And not always everything is a tale, sometimes its just poetry.

As you let go of your senses, your desires, your wants, maya is no longer in
control. Its a new ball game. The substratum, the happiness, the pure awareness,
which is at the basis of everything, takes over. And even though you appear to have
a body, your body unfolds as it should. All of your affairs are taken care of,
without one desire.

Your body is karmic. What appears to be your body is preordained. When the body
first appeared, everything about you was preordained. Whether youre going to be
male or female, the kind of nose you would have, your color, where you were born.
Everything was taken care of. You had absolutely nothing to do with it. Isnt it
reasonable to assume therefore, that the same power that was able to bring you into
this world as an appearance, can take care of this appearance, maintain it and
sustain it, and do with it whats supposed to happen?

Yielding like the earth,

Joyous and clear like the lake,
Still as the stone at the door,
He is free from life and death,
His thoughts are still,
His words are still,
His work is stillness.

He sees his freedom and he is freed.

The master surrenders his beliefs.
He sees beyond the end and the beginning.
He cuts all ties.
He gives up all his desires.
He resists all temptation.
And he rises.

~The Dhammapada, Verses 95-99.

The Sage will never interfere in your life. Remember the Sage is not a problem
solver. All problems are of the mind. What does the Sage have to do with this
Nothing, all works out of the mind. The Sage is beyond the mind, beyond thinking,
beyond thoughts, beyond doing, beyond appearances. This is why there is nothing
more powerful than being with the Sage, and having a quiet mind.

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished
for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be
because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same
stage.

- Baptized by Fire

This mechanism, known as Kundalini, is the real cause of all genuine spiritual
phenomena, the biological basis of evolution and the development of personality,
the secret origin of all esoteric and occult doctrines, the master key to the
unsolved mystery of creation, the inexhaustible source of philosophy, art and
science and the fountainhead of all religions, past, present and future. ~ Gopi
Krisha

When you succeed in awakening the kundalini so that is starts to move out of its
mere potentiality, you necessarily experience a world which is totally different
from our world. It is a world of eternity ~ Carl G. Jung

Kundalini is sadba brahman or the word in bodies and is in her own form pure
consciousness and is all power She is in fact the cosmic energy in bodies and as
such the cause of all, and through manifesting as, is not confined to any of her
products. She is called serpent and she sleeps in the mooladhara. She sleeps
because she is at rest. Then mans consciousness is truly awakened to the world,
her creation in which she is imminent. When she is awake and yoga is complete, man
sleeps to the world and enjoys the super worldly infinite experience. ~ Sir John
Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon)

With the awakening of Kundalini, the greater intelligence is aroused from its
sleep and you can give birth to a new range of creativity and infinite perception.
When kundalini awakens, not only are you blessed with visions and psychic
experiences, you could become a prophet, saint, inspired artist, musician, a
brilliant writer or poet, a clairvoyant or messiah. Or you could become an
outstanding leader; prime minister, governor or president. The awakening of
kundalini affects the whole are of the human mind and behavior. Kundalini is not a
myth or an illusion. It is not a hypothesis or a hypnotic suggestion. Kundalini is
a biological substance that exists within the framework of the body. Its awakening
generates impulses throughout the whole body and these impulses can be detected by
modern scientific instruments and machines. Therefore each of us should consider
the importance and the benefits of awakening kundalini, and we should make a
resolve to awaken the great Shakti! ~ Swami Satyananda

The yogis call it Kundalini Sakti. It is the same as vritti of the form of God of
the bhaktas and vritti of the form of Brahman of the jnanis. It must be preliminary
to Realisation Kundalini is only another name for atma or Self or sakti. We talk
of it as being inside the body, because we conceive ourselves as limited by this
body. But it is in reality both inside and outside, being no other than Self. ~
Ramana Maharshi

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on
comes easily; we do not need to learn it."

"I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior,
but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn
child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. Its
compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle."