While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.