To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.