There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.