I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

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.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.