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If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.

If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.

If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.

If you are having sex with someone who is not on the same frequency that you are on, it can be very problematic. The greatest karmic transfer occurs in having sex with someone.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.

If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

If you decide that you are a winner, and if you hold that image in your mind strongly enough, you will become a winner.

If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.

If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.

If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.