If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.