"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise."

"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."

"The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world."

"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."

"There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"It is a essential truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation."

"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."