If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.