Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.

A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.

Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.

You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.

Consciousness is a phenomenon with which life does things such as hear and see itself.

We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.

Ignorance is at best merely a drop of bliss, whereas spiritual knowledge is at all times an ocean of bliss.

One of the most important facts that the vast majority of us are ignorant of is that we are each other.

The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.