Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.

When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.