I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.