Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.