In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.