If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.