You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.

It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.

Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.