There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.