Subtle Quotes - Page 8

• The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.

  T. J. Jagodowski

  Fashion, Jobs, Interesting

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• The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Thinking, Red

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Meditation, Technique

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Self, Gone, Whispering

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• If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Body, Flow, Problem

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• When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Hair, People

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• When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in your physical body. The problem always starts in the subtle physical, and then manifests in the physical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Body, Problem

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• The subtle body must be intact to transmit the kundalini.

  Frederick Lenz

  Body, Transmit

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• Women tend to open themselves up more during sex. Because their subtle physical bodies are so much more sensitive they tend to pick up the total energy of the man they have sex with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Men

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

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• Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Intelligent

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• Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Mathematical, Malicious

  Remark made at Princeton University, c.9 May 1921, in R. W. Clark 'Einstein' (1973) ch. 14

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Energy

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• Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.

  Raymond Chandler

  Eye, Writing, Loss

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Heart, Buddhism

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Body, Sides

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Body

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• 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.

  Jello Biafra

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• 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.

  Randy Gage

  Years, Personality, Marketing

  Randy Gage (2010). “Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Looks, Movement, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Together, Body

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Light

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

  Andre Gide

  Strength, Art, Doe

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Decision, Intuition, Judgment

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