If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.