Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

The kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.

All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.