Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.

At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

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

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.