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.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.