I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not solve anything, really. Reasoning is theoretical. Until you feel with your heart, you don't know if a thing is true. I found that book was absolutely authentic. I absolutely knew it was the truth. My whole heart accepted it.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.