You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.