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

I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.

When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.