The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.