Buddhism Quotes - Page 38

The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives in both this and in other worlds.

The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.

The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.

Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.

There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.

The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.

Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.

Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

There is wisdom to loving.

If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.

You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.

You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.