That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.

The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.