The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.