When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.

The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.