Tantric Wisdom

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Albert Einstein
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"Here, in this body, there are the sacred rivers. Here lie the sun and the moon and also all the holy pilgrimage places. I have never met another temple fuller with happiness as my own body."

Saraha Doha
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"When my lover comes back home I will turn my body into a Temple of Joy. I will give him this body as an altar of happiness and I will clean him totally with my long hair. Then my lover will dedicate this temple to divine love."

Vaishnav Baul's Song
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"The obstacle represented by habits appears and is destroying. Kill this bug and you will be able to know."

Tilopa
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"Worthiness is a given. You may let in all the good now."

- Lola Jones
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"We're all born to be a power of blessing to others. We can bless
right now. We can offer refuge for others, not a hiding place, but a place of strength."

- Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, Clinical Professor, UCSF
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"Like a silkworm weaving her house with love from her marrow, and
dying in her body's threads winding tight, round and round, I burn desiring what the heart desires."

-Mahadeviyakka
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"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. "

-- John Schaar
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Your very thoughts are the key. You can do it. Whatever you want, you can have it. Just think it, feel it and vaguely move towards it, and with persistence, tipping points will be reached, critical mass formed and the most outlandish serendipities arranged. The world you now live in was created this very way, and through 'thinking' you perpetuate the celebration. You are a nonstop creating machine; a manifesting maestro. You are pure 'cause.' And for now, it's virtually a secret: Your very thoughts are the key."

~The Universe
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"Art is frozen Zen."

-R.H. Blyth
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Having enjoyed a sweet delicious taste, and having sometimes tasted what is bitter, do not greedily enjoy the sweet taste. Do not feel aversion toward the bitter. When touched by pleasant contact, do not be enthralled. Do not tremble when touched by pain. Look evenly on both the pleasant and painful, not drawn or repelled by anything.

-Buddha
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"Personality is a farce, personality is pseudo, personality is that which is given to you by the society. Personality is imposed on you from the outside; it is a mask. Individuality is your very being. Individuality is that which you bring into the world, individuality is God's gift. Individuality is a non-egoistic phenomenon; it is pure am-ness, it has no 'I' in it. Personality is nothing but 'I': it has no am-ness in it. Personality is aggressive, violent, dominating, political. Individuality is silent, loving, compassionate; it is religious…."

~ Osho
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"I would believe in a God who could dance"

~ Friedrich Nietzsche - German philosopher
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

-- Frank Herbert Dune
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

-Chinese Epigram
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"You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head."

-- Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people
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"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

-- Hans Margolius
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"Two monks were arguing about the temple flag. One said the flag
moved, the other said the wind moved. Master Eno overheard them and said, 'It is neither the wind nor the flag, but your mind that moves.'"

-Anonymous
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"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open."

-B.K.S. Iyengar
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"How long the sun and moon have been turning day and night, just to spend one night with You!"

-Rumi
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"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness, all one's honesty.

~ Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 - German-born Theoretical Physicist
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Believe you are a creator

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you."
-- Shakti Gawain

We hold the power to create whatever we desire. Our ability to
manifest the changes we desire depends on the depth and passion of our beliefs and on the focus of our attention. With this
understanding, we, as individuals and as society, can design a whole new future for ourselves. Our challenge is to break free of society's world view, to truly empower our imaginations to create brand new realities. It brings a whole new meaning to `vision.' What do you passionately desire for your own life? For the planet?

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
-- Nikos Kazantzakis