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“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.”

Mind Heart Stills Light Beautiful Attention Meditation Conditions Fields Buddhism Quiet Ego Subtle Joyous Ecstatic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.”

Firsts Whole Able Vision Meditation Buddhism Subtle Psychics Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the physical body, as in what we call the subtle physical body, the body of energy.”

Body Energy Bits Buddhism Subtle Spine Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Body Sides Buddhism Subtle Tubes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.”

Two Use Body Running Buddhism Subtle Nerves Mystical Blocked

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.”

Humans Looks Made Body Light Eye Energy Buddhism Rate Subtle Physical Body Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.”

Body Buddhism Shapes Reflection Subtle Auras Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.”

Different Body Buddhism Bones Subtle Organs Tissues Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.”

Body Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Physical Body Chakra Junction Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Made Body Energy Buddhism Planes Subtle Luminous Strands Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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!”

World Dream Body Moving Buddhism Eternity Subtle Corridors

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.”

Body Light Energy Awareness Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Surround Physical Body Chakra Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.”

Energy Easy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Subtle Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Body Buddhism Lifetime Subtle Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.”

Body Together Awareness Buddhism Subtle Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.”

Body Awareness Buddhism Series Subtle Dna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ideas Body Buddhism Subtle Good Ideas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.”

Looks Lines Emotion Audience Stage Movement Jokes Subtle Timing

Author:Sylvester McCoy

“I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.”

Art Ideas Whole Body Bigs Inspiration Energy Brain Fans Subtle New Ideas Spinning Ideas And Inspiration

Author:Jello Biafra

“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.”

Way Games Process Realizing Born Class Taught Late Subtle

Book:Lena

Source: Lena

“Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.”

Tvs Subtle Sinister

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.”

Thinking Beautiful Sweet Keys Lows Subtle Sentimental Sweetness Reminders Jewelry Low Key

Author:Kidada Jones

“Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.”

Ifs Thinking Light One Thing Havens Charm Subtle Sense Of Humor Enchanted Deceptive Hummingbirds

Author:Laurel Lea

“I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.”

Way Feels Records Extremes Setting Settings Subtle Concerts Dynamics

Author:Sondre Lerche

“General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.”

Decision Cases Depends Judgment Majors Intuition Subtle Concrete Propositions Premises

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death”

Knows Men Wells Society Method Subtle

Author:Andre Gide

“The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.”

Firsts Doe Art Strength Art Is Supreme Subtle Strongest

Author:Andre Gide

“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Little by little, in subtle ways, you get programmed. You create beliefs that get cemented in your personality. You don't realize you are doing this, but you are. Your core, foundational beliefs about relationships, money, and success will all be programmed into you by the time you are 10 years old.”

Way Years Littles Belief Realizing Personality Marketing Core Subtle

Book:Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!

Source: Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!

“If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.”

“There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.”

Challenges Differences Space Surprise Disappointment Delight Subtle Sisterhood

Book:Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood

Source: Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood

“The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.”

Action Subtle Flattery

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.”

Risk Sweet Satisfaction Vices Enjoyed Subtle Gossip

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.”

Soul Artist Greatness Circumstances Office Supreme Chosen Artistic Subtle Defining Mesh

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.”

Love Giving Art Inspiration Pride Skills Mere Subtle

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.”

Persons Self Example Subtle Devices Indulge Neurotic Atonement Accusation Indulge In

Author:Alfred Adler

“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”

Wells Looks May Littles Enough Dies Evil Church Numbers Worship Sick Adversity Trials Weather Chiefs Hypocrisy Subtle Inward Request Mischief Malady Good Weather

Author:Joseph Hall

“One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.”

Feels Waiting Cities Subtle Chicago Plastic Reception Hares Nausea

Author:Norman Mailer

“Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.”

Would Be Color Subtle Amazed

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.”

Art Ideas Today Art Is Subtle Hindrance Nuisance

Author:Susan Sontag

“Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.”

Men Simple Direct Complexes Subtle

Author:Brian Tracy

“One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.”

Life Is Red Blue Prepared Naked All Time Subtle Celebration Starks Fisherman

Author:Francis Picabia

“Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.”

Self Easy Affection Subtle Deceit Deceiving

Author:Demosthenes

“Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.”

Way Universal Subtle Extravagant Extravagance Archetype

Author:Tanith Lee

“When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.”

I Can Hate My Own Support My Family I Hate Subtle Liars Pencils Lighting Viewpoints

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.”

Should Reactions Subtle

Author:Jim Hodges

“Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.”

Change Differences Environment Figures Paint Subtle

Author:John Newman