My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.