The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.