Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.

Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.