I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who was controlling what was going on in the life of the "outer" person, who thinks he's in control of his life. That inner person has a vested interest in keeping the person from getting well, so the healing doesn't take place.

Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our intuitions, our thoughts, our sensing and our feeling.

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay mind, for people who have no idea about what's going on in quantum physics. They are meant to get big ideas across in the simplest way so young people can start to wrestle with these ideas.