In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

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

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.