Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.