In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.