When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.