Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?