Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.