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.

There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.

The essence of your being reincarnates.

Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.