Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.