But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.