To know oneself is a long process. First we must study. - P. D. Ouspensky
Start making connections with people you wish were your family. Non-family relationships can be deeper and easier than family relationships, because they come without the baggage of the past. -Laurie Pawlik Kienlen
For meditation to work, it needs to become a path, a journey, rather than a random experience that we dip into from time to time. - Gelong Thubten
Daily meditation unfolds inner peace, love and bliss, and a great happening happens. That happening is the balance between body, mind and consciousness. Meditation brings perfect health. - Vasant Lad
There are four types of temperament:
He who is easily angered and easily appeased, his loss is canceled by his gain. He whom it is hard to anger but hard to appease, his gain is canceled by his loss. He whom it is hard to anger and easy to appease, this is a saintly temperament. He whom it is easy to anger and hard to appease, this is a wicked temperament. - Ethics of the Fathers 5:14 As to national defense, it is simply wasteful. It diverts treasure from education, public health, social welfare, the arts, and from the construction and maintenance of transportation systems and public utilities. The poor suffer, we all suffer. - Robert Aitken
It is good to inquire and investigate. However, if you spend your entire life inquiring and investigating, you will never reach the ultimate purpose of life. - Vasant Lad
Too many people squander their lives because of the word ‘when’. They self- convince themselves that happiness will come at some future point: ‘when I graduate’; ‘when I get a job’; ‘when I marry’; ‘when I buy a house’; ‘when I have children’; ‘when the children leave the house’; ‘when I retire’; etc.
Beware anytime you use the word ‘when’ and look closely to see if you are, in fact, delaying happiness for some far off distant moment when it is already present in your life. When distraction indicates the feeling that we never arrive. It effectively blocks the presence of happiness and joy. -VMP Impermanence is not a reassurance that things will get better. It is not a simple reminder that change will come. - Margaret Meloni
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Victor M. Parachin ...is aVedic educator, yoga instructor, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of a dozen books. Buy his books at amazon or your local bookstore. Archives
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