Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.