Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.