People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

I like to be weird, kinky, straight, in and out, up and down. I like to blow up people's expectations, create them, destroy them, and dissolve them. It is fun.

The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.