When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.

In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.