In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.