Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.