It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.