I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!