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.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

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.