Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.