In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.