Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.