When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.

To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.

When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.

In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.