What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.