I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!