Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

Existence is the awareness of awareness.

If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.