To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.