Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.