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“We live and enjoy the vitality (virya) of consciousness to the degree in which we are sensitive to the beauty of things around us. Each aesthetic experience, had with mindfulness and a disciplined intention directed towards heightening our general level of aesthetic sensitivity, brings us a little closer to the sustained wonder of the pulsation (spanda) of consciousness which permeates all experience.”
― The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism
― The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism
“Although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given,
There is only one thing to be understood -
Know the one thing that liberates everything -
Awareness itself, your true nature.”
― Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice
There is only one thing to be understood -
Know the one thing that liberates everything -
Awareness itself, your true nature.”
― Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice
“Psychosynthesis is interested in the whole building. We try to build an elevator which will allow a person access to every level of his personality. After all, a building with only a basement is very limited. We want to open up the terrace where you can sun-bathe or look at the stars. Our concern is the synthesis of all areas of the personality. That means psychosynthesis is holistic, global and inclusive. It is not against psychoanalysis or even behavior modification but it insists that the needs for meaning, for higher values, for a spiritual life, are as real as biological or social needs. We deny that there are any isolated human problems.”
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“Taking it all in all, Zen is emphatically a matter of personal experience; if anything can be called radically empirical, it is Zen. No amount of reading, no amount of teaching, no amount of contemplation will ever make one a Zen master. Life itself must be grasped in the midst of its flow; to stop it for examination and analysis is to kill it, leaving its cold corpse to be embraced.”
― An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
― An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Knowledge is like a sphere; the greater its volume, the larger its contact with the unknown.”
― Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
― Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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