The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own mind, is called mantra.

When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.