A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.

A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.

If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.