In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.