The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.

Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.