Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.