If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.