If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.

Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.

If you decide that you are a winner, and if you hold that image in your mind strongly enough, you will become a winner.

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

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.