To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.