All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.