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.

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.

Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

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

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.