You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.