In The World Quotes
Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.
The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.
The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.
Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.
I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.
I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.
My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.
I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.
I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.
To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.
You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.
You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.
We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America.
You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.
The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.
Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.