What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.