All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".