The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.

In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.