When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.

Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.