Meryl Streep is expert at only using the requisite amount of energy to express her character, not an ounce too little or too much. She's Zen and doesn't know she's Zen. That's very Zen!

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

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.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.