Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.

The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.

Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.

Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.