If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.