Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.