When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

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.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.

Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.