Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.