Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.