Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.