How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

To learn is to change.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.