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

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.

Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.