When you stop your thoughts, you stop the world.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.