If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.

As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.