I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

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.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.