You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.

The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.