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

Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.