Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.

When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.