How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?

The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.