Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.