I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.