You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

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.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in the view. We have to separate, to some extent, the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose all distinction whatsoever.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.