The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.

The people that hurt you are the ones you love because you are the most open to them.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.