I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.

The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

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.

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.