We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.