We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.