If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first.