I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it's easier for them to increase their awareness there.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.