The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.