That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.