There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.

Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.

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.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality