This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

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.

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.