The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.