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

It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?

The people that hurt you are the ones you love because you are the most open to them.

It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness