The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.