Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.

I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.