Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
– Maya Angelou, Daily Peace Quote
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May there be nonviolence and conscious awareness this inauguration weekend, on all sides. Thank you friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens of this country and planet earth.
Try not to localize the mind anywhere, but let it fill up the whole body, let it flow throughout the totality of your being. When this happens you use the hands where they are needed, you use the legs or eyes where they are needed, and no time or energy will go to waste.
Whatever the circumstance, bodily movement or stillness, feeling well or distressed, with good concentration or scattered attention, everything can be brought back to awareness.
A person devoid of ego functions would be self-destructive: either a beast with uncontrolled impulses, or a neurotic, repressed automaton with no mind of her own, or an infantile monster thrashing erratically between these two extremes. Anyone who tried to abandon ego functioning would arrest his psychological growth and lose all hope of becoming a mature, responsible, trustworthy adult. And as we know, self-destructive people don’t destroy only themselves. They can pull down many of the people and places around them.
“Five thousand years ago there was no way to know the energy points, the meridians and the bridges except through meditating “¦..Taoist yogis became aware that there are 700 points on the body which are energy points and just by pressing those points the whole energy field of the body can be changed and transformed.”
God does not desire the soul to undertake any labor, but only to take delight in the first fragrance of the flowers…the soul can obtain sufficient nourishment from its own garden.
