To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?