Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.

People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.