To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.