Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.

Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.