"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.