I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.