Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.