Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.

Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.