Be Here Now (Enhanced Edition)

As long as any desire pulls or pushes you, you are like a flame which flickers in the winds. But as you come to your center, as you break the identification with desire, you become calm, like a candle in a niche where no wind comes.

To become free of attachment means to break the link identifying you with your desires. The desires continue; they are part of the dance of nature. But a renunciate no longer thinks that he is his desires.

and took my horn-rimmed glasses out of my

profound. As they say in the Sikh religion—Once you realize God knows everything, you’re free.

That was my first experience of giving a contact high!

“Snakes Know Heart.” “Yogis in jungle need not fear.” Because if you’re pure enough, cool it, don’t worry. But you’ve got to be very pure.

“Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”

Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism and Way of the White Cloud)