The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!

The universe is holding congress with itself.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.