When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.

You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.