One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis

When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.

Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.

When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.