Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.

There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.