Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.