When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.

The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.