When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.

The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.