Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?