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Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with fac...more

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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of ...more

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The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bot...more

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Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the...more

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I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same ...more

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But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pi...more

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was b...more

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... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive threa...more

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To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

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Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist ...more

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You have been to hell, Ketut?"He smiled. Of course he's been there.What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven," he said.He saw my confusion and trie...more

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The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

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At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last comp...more

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So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own stren...more

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Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.