Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.