You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.

They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.