Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

I mean, my mind is a storm, and I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Philosophical idealism is only nonsense from the standpoint of crude, simple, metaphysical materialism. From the standpoint of dialectical materialism, on the other hand, philosophical idealism is a one-sided, exaggerated, development (inflation, distension) of one of the features, aspects, facets of knowledge, into an absolute, divorced from matter, from nature, apotheosised.

Yoga is a vision for a harmonious future for humanity. It is an "stage" i.e. a state of mind not "system".

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.