But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

The universe works with you and for you. It is not your enemy.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.

Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.