While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.

The superior man responds

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.