You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.