Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

In Zen we have no gurus.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.