The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.