Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.

Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.

If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.