A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.