There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.

If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.

You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.