When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.