Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.