When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.