People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.