Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.