What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

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.

In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.