Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.