Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.