My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.