Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.