If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.