A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.