To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.

The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for.

You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.