You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.

The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.