Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.