The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.