I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."

Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.

It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.