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“It entails breaking everything down to such an extent that the only thing left is truth. This is exactly what happened to my life as events occurred to destroy my world and bring me to the precipice of suicide.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Spiritual Memoir for Personal Transformation and Enlightenment

“You can find friends who are working for something positive, who have a purpose in life that you respect. You can go to college even if only part-time. Make your life full of positive purpose. You are free to do what you feel is right. Do what you want to do, and be yourself.” It felt as if an angel had spoken through my body. The voice was so clear and full of Rightness that I trusted it completely. Had it been my own thought or the advice of a person, I am sure I would have rejected it. But now I knew I could do whatever I set my mind to if I just kept at it positively.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Spiritual Memoir for Personal Transformation and Enlightenment

“Realizing that meditation is about defocusing, I saw that the next step was to simply choose to defocus the mind from the outset. Focusing takes willpower, but defocusing is about relaxation. The secret is to simply relax into the big picture, which creates the effect of calm alertness — the perfect combination for a martial artist. With this insight, I was free of my need for stargazing, because I could relax into the big picture anytime or anywhere — a giant step forward.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“If meditation is a tool, your body is the guide, and your life is the path. What are the folds? What are the bindings? Ideas, concepts, ideologies, biases, assumptions, emotional habits, feelings, traumas, addictions, patterns, regrets, lies, fears, phobias, beliefs, and much, much more — everything that you cling to, really. These things constitute the folds, the bindings, of your life that have served to obscure what is at the very center just waiting to be perceived — Isness. Anything we cling to is a fold. To avoid turning meditation into a fold, we will focus on principle rather than form, for the mind insecurely latches onto form. By focusing on principle, we can get the most out of meditation without binding to the form. The meditations herein won’t tell you what is written on your paper; instead, they will help you to unfold that paper, to unbind your soul, so you can see, or more precisely inspirience, Isness for yourself in your daily life, and in so doing, end your suffering. In this way, quite naturally, you are a light to the world.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“Saint Paul wrote that your body is the temple, which is to say, your body holds the wisdom that you seek. While there is no way for me to be certain what Paul actually meant by his words, my own awakening process has proven to me that the body does indeed hold the wisdom we seek. If the body holds hidden wisdom, we will need a way to gain access to that wisdom. The path to that wisdom is your life. The guide on your path is your body, for it does not lie. The body contains an unfathomable amount of untapped information that will ultimately assist you in your awakening as you open up to that hidden wisdom. Meditation is merely a tool to assist you in the process of discovering the wisdom hidden within. The magic is within you, not the meditation.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“One of the primary purposes of this book is to so elucidate the differences between consciousness and mind that the reader will immediately begin noticing when they are tuned to mind, which is the source of suffering, and in so realizing, choose to tune to consciousness instead.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Spiritual Memoir for Personal Transformation and Enlightenment

“We need to distinguish between activities that are spiritually fulfilling versus ones that leave us feeling hollow in the end. I used to play a lot of video games. Simply put, they were fun and exciting. I was good at them, and I liked getting better. During weekends I could spend more than twelve hours playing video games. I did so for years. I noticed that, as fun as the games were, at the end of the day, I often felt a lingering sense of regret or hollowness, as if I had wasted my time. My body seemed to be telling me that there was no meaning in that activity — which is not to say that everyone will feel just like I did, but pay attention to the feeling in the body during and after activities. Make note of the activities that are fulfilling. Spend more time doing those activities. Also, note those activities that result in hollowness or regret. Spend less time doing those things. We can wean ourselves from meaningless activities and gravitate more toward meaningful ones.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“vagal breathing” should not be associated with other traditions that may use the same term applied to a slightly different practice. Sit down to keep you safe in the event that you faint. Take in a full breath and hold it while tensing your entire body. Be sure to tense the face as well. Hold the tension along with the breath. Although it may seem as if your lungs are full, that is not actually the case. Without exhaling the current air in your lungs, inhale again to fully top off your lungs. Hold the air and physical tension for as long as you can. When you can no longer hold your breath, exhale slowly and relax the body. Allow your body to breathe naturally.”
― Richard L. Haight, Unshakable Awareness: Meditation in the Heart of Chaos, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“death of the body offers no escape; we will return in a new body and experience repeatedly until we awaken. In the event that this planet becomes uninhabitable to us, we will incarnate on another planet that serves the same function.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“Identifications like this can entrap entire societies. We can see this phenomenon at the national level, where”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“However, a growing body of research by Kevin Tracey — neurosurgeon and president of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y. — is indicating that stimulation of the vagus nerve may be a powerful means of treating chronic inflammation and so-called incurable diseases (Pavlov and Tracey).”
― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“Personal love is what we feel for our family, our friends, our pets, and so forth. The intensity of personal love will naturally vary, depending upon”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“De los maestros que empleaban la meditación, ninguno de ellos nunca meditó solo durante unos pocos segundos, ya que parece un tiempo tremendamente corto para alcanzar un estado meditativo. Aunque yo ya era un meditador de toda la vida, incluso antes de unirme al dojo del Sensei Osaki, el ritual de meditación de dos segundos desafiaba mis habilidades.”
― Richard L. Haight, La Meditación del Guerrero: El Secreto Mejor Guardado Sobre Mejora Personal, Desarrollo Cognitivo y Reducción del Estrés, Enseñado Por un Maestro en Cuatro ... Total a la Meditación TEM)

“What are you?” Its answer as best as I can put it into words was, “There is no other.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“many adults have false memories of their young childhood, based on stories that they were told by family members. A child may remember having an experience that they never actually had because they heard the story when they were young. The false memory, as vivid as it might seem, is the product of imagination. Given”
― Richard L. Haight, Unshakable Awareness: Meditation in the Heart of Chaos, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“he told me that he had just received a type of physical therapy called sotai-ho. He gave me the business card of the practitioner, and I called immediately to set up an appointment.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“Para evitar la trampa de la forma y la tradición, definiré la meditación no como una forma sino como un estado de claridad que se genera a partir de una conciencia del momento presente profundamente integrada. Cómo llegamos a esa conciencia presente y lúcida, en mi opinión, es menos importante que la experiencia directa de la claridad.”
― Richard L. Haight, La Meditación del Guerrero: El Secreto Mejor Guardado Sobre Mejora Personal, Desarrollo Cognitivo y Reducción del Estrés, Enseñado Por un Maestro en Cuatro ... Total a la Meditación TEM)

“define meditation not as a form but, instead, as a state of vibrant clarity that comes of deeply integrated present moment awareness. How we get to that vibrant present awareness, in my estimation, is less important than the direct experience of vibrant clarity.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

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― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“Para la mayoría de las personas, a menos que estemos en reposo, el cerebro está generando constantemente ondas beta que se pueden medir. Cuando estamos en reposo, el cerebro generalmente emite ondas alfa, que son más lentas y de mayor amplitud. Las alfa representan un estado de reposo, por lo que una meditación básica de relajación correspondería a un estado alfa.”
― Richard L. Haight, La Meditación del Guerrero: El Secreto Mejor Guardado Sobre Mejora Personal, Desarrollo Cognitivo y Reducción del Estrés, Enseñado Por un Maestro en Cuatro ... Total a la Meditación TEM)

“Imagine the seed of consciousness planted in the hearts of the aggressors as they realize that violence, force, and fear have no power over unconditioned love.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

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― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

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― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“you relax into a more expansive awareness, your brain will move beyond alpha and into theta, delta, and possibly even gamma-wave states that stimulate profoundly positive, lasting structural changes in your brain.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“From the TEM curriculum, I wrote The Warrior's Meditation,”
― Richard L. Haight, Unshakable Awareness: Meditation in the Heart of Chaos, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“for the vast majority of individuals, their entire vocabulary is heavily tainted, which means that language itself becomes a huge hurdle, blocking us from tuning to consciousness.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“including elementary particles and atoms, but only life-forms have individuated spirits. Soul is the image-free energy within each individual in the multiverse and beyond. Each and every atom in the multiverse has Soul. All cells and organelles within cells have Soul. Plants and animals, planets and stars have Soul. Humans also have Soul.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“birth this book.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Unbound Soul: A Visionary Guide to Spiritual Transformation and Enlightenment

“experience flow states that”
― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts

“The third mental map focuses on what we believe to be true. This map consists entirely of beliefs and ideologies that feel familiar to us.”
― Richard L. Haight, The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Emotional Regulation, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts