Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.