You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.