The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.