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.

I love everybody. Even George Bush.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

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

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.