Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.