Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

When the world stops, time stops.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.