In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.

How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

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

There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.