The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer you can stop thought, the more powerful you are.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.