When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.