If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.

If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.