Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.