Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways. I would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their choices are really made for them.

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.