If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Not an unconscious state Or mental chloroform without wilful return,
Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousness
Beyond the limits of my mortal frame
To the boundaries of eternity,
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in Me.

"In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman, he said. "Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, has no sex. The soul is the pure, changeless image of God.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.