Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.