The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.