In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.

For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.