The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.