Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ecstatic.