Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.

There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.