Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

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.

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.