Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.