Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.