Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

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.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy.