Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.