Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.

You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.