People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.