There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

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.

There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is certainly miserable not to have it.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.