Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.