The mind is a powerful tool that works in your favour, as long as you are its controller. It is the controller of the mind, who can benefit from all of its powers and strength.

If you find yourself mentally weak, unable to focus, and unable to control things around you, it is because of this simple truth: You are not in control of your mind.

The discipline of reading a book improves your powers of concentration and enriches your life. A good book will free your mind from the chaos of the modern World. A book does not interrupt you with commercial breaks.

A book allows you to concentrate better and for longer durations. Just as we have healthy and unhealthy food, there are unhealthy books that can ruin the mind. Be careful of what you read.

You meet a multitude of people in a day. Some take space in your conscious mind; some take space in your unconscious mind. Your mind is an unorganised mess of information.

This mess can interfere with your thoughts for the simple reason that they are present in your mind. An unorganised mind can only produce unorganised thoughts. Unorganised thoughts will result only in unorganised actions.

Silence helps enhance the growth of new brain cells, activates your brain’s memory, and encourages self-reflection. The silent hour is the hour of the day when you organise your thoughts

It is the hour when you meet yourself face to face, speak to yourself, analyse your goals, and organise the contents of your mind in a way that it helps you in achieving your goals. The silent hour is the hour in which you clean up your mind.

Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language and whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture.

Don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe and if you are worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y or something. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.

That is all cultural diversion and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears … and we are told no, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral, ‘Get a degree’, ‘Get a job’, get a this, get a that, and then you’re a player. You don’t even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?