If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.