People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.