Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.

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

If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.