When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.