Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.