Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.

All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.