Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.