If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.