Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?