None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.