Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.