The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.

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

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.