Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.

Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.