During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.

To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.