Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.