You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.

Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.

When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it's necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.