Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.