Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.

The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the red dress. We are a little bit of everyone. Let's not get too fancy here.