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.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.