To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.