If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.

In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.