For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.

You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.