Tantric Wisdom

You do not exist for yourself. The only hurdle between you and what
you want to be is the support of others. Put yourself in another's
place and you'll know why they think and do certain things. You can
succeed fastest by helping others to succeed. Always think in terms
of what the other person wants. You'll get everything in life that
you want if you'll help enough other people get what they want. Doing
things for others always pays dividends. You're not an isolated
island. You're a piece of the planet; a piece of the universe.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all
advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Help
someone's boat across a river and you'll find your own boat has
reached the shore too.

THE DAILY GURU ©2006 by Max Steingart
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"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people
act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only
thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our
attitude."

-Charles Swindoll
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"Out beyond thoughts of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a
place - meet me there."

- Rumi
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein
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"You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable,
unfathomable awareness, unperturbable: so hold to nothing but
consciousness. "

Ashtavakra Gita, 1.17
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"For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited
dimensions."

~Lao-Tzu
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"Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it
is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired
source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and
mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path,
through diligence."

~ Gautama Buddha
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"There is nothing to practise. To know yourself, be yourself. To be
yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let
your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking. A
quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your
mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does
self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and
steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles
without effort on your part."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The greatest guru is your inner self. Truly he is the supreme
teacher. He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at
the end of the road. Confide in him and you need no outer guru."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart…
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

~ Carl Jung
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After his enlightenment, people were struck by the Buddha's
extraordinary radiance and peaceful presence.
"Are you a god?" they asked.
"No," said the Buddha.
"An angel?"
"No," again came the reply.
"A saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
Buddha answered, "I am awake."

~ Huston Smith - The World's Religions
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"Of all the delights of this world man cares most for sexual
intercourse. He will go any length for it-risk fortune, character,
reputation, life itself. and what do you think he has done? He has
left it out of his heaven! "

~ Mark Twain- Notebook, 1906
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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

-- Albert Einstein
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YOUR MIND SETS YOUR LIMITS

Everything is possible when you believe it's possible. What you
envision you can do, you can do. What your mind can conceive and
believe, your mind can achieve. Success is actually a state of mind.
Start thinking of yourself as a success. Know in your heart that you
can do the job you've set out to do. Believe in yourself. If you
think you can, you can.

THE DAILY GURU ©2006 by Max Steingart
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"Sex is the outward visible sign of an inward spiritual grace
bringing about love."

-- Alan Watts
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"To achieve the supreme experience ... calls for a gradual
intensifying of the senses, rather than a diminution of them. To that
end, Tantrik disciplines seek not only to awaken the subtle energy
centers, but to purify and to open the psychic channels, allowing a
free influx of energy from the higher planes."

-- Omar Garrison in TANTRA: THE YOGA OF SEX
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"Relate with others, but relate with yourself also. Love others, but
love yourself also. Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous; it
is a challenge, it enriches. Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to
lose, there is everything to gain."

~ Osho, (1931-1990) - Indian Spiritual Teacher
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"Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth."

- Nahman of Bratslav, "Likute Moharan"
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"Right or wrong, joy and sorrow; these are of the mind only. They are
not yours. It is not really you who acts or enjoys. You are
everywhere, forever free.

-Ashtavakra Gita 1:6
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"Freedom of choice is not, itself, the perfection of liberty. But it
helps us take our first step toward freedom or slavery, spontaneity
or compulsion. The free man is the one whose choices have given him
the power to stand on his own feet and determine his own life
according to the higher light and spirit that are in him. The slave,
in the spiritual order, is the man whose choices have destroyed all
spontaneity in him and have delivered him over, bound hand and foot,
to his own compulsions, idiosyncrasies and illusions, so that he
never does what he really wants to do, but only what he has to do."