Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

If someone has something you want, they can wrap you - they can make you think that they've got something that you have to get from them. They're the exclusive source. They are the only one who can make you happy.

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.