Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

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.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.