Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.