Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.