I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.