The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.