As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.