A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?

Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.