Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.

What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.

The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.