Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.