No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.
Meditation changes your character.
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.