Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.