Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power.

Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.