Forgiveness is the best revenge.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.