The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.

How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.