The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.