“Meditation is sitting down for years trying to organize the endocrine system. Non-Initiates sit down and practice meditation, and they have the experience of calmness, and that’s as far as they go. The Initiate doesn’t practice meditation. He lives it.”

“If I can’t do six things at once, I feel like I’m wasting my time.”

“‘The comparative studies are a joke. They are comical. A lot of the scientific literature these days is worthless,’ says psychiatrist Jack E. Rosenblatt. ‘The whole process has been corrupted,’ says British bone researcher Aubrey Blumsohn. ‘It is getting worse as the financial stakes are rising.’”

“In terms of measurable riches, Charles Dawes was as wealthy as any of the powerful Chicago industrialists of his day, including railroad car magnate George Pullman; department store creator Marshall Field; International Harvester scion Charles Deering; philanthropist and Sears founder Jules Rosenwald; and meatpacker Gustavus Swift. (It is interesting to note that one website omits Dawes from its list of prominent Chicago industrialists and financiers, even though he financed the operations of some who are listed.) Perhaps the key difference is that Dawes kept the accumulation of his assets closely held — none of his corporations, with the exception of common stock for the bank, were ever publicly traded. In the days before Forbes magazine could ascertain the value of the assets of prominent businesspeople, especially those with privately held wealth, Dawes’s net worth stayed off the radar screen.”

“The late General Charles Gates Dawes, former Vice President of the United States, former chairman of the board of the City National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, and until his death a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, once told me that he and his brother had made over a million dollars in the market solely as a result of his knowledge of cycles. He showed me brokerage statements that indicated more than this amount in clear profit.”