The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.