When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.

Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.