Subtle Quotes
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.
Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.
If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.
The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body.
Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.
You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.
The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.
Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.
The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.
You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.
When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words.
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.
We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.
Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.
We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.