Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.

Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.