If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

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

Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.

The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.