As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.