There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.