We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.