If It Was You Quotes
Be conscious of the way people take your energy and learn how to stop it. Accept that this goes on. Observe how you feel around other people.
Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.
Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.
As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.
Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.
Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.
If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.
Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.
You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.
Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.
When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.
You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.
I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.
When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.
There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.
When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.
No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.