How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.