You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?