Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.