You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.