The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.

There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.