That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.