Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.