In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.