The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.