Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.