Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.

Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.