When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.