We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.

You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.