I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.