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.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.