My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.