Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.