1. “The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.”
2. “When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.”
3. “We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.”
4. “You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.”
5. “Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.”
6. “Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.”
7. “You can learn not to want what you want. to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.”
8. “Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.”
9. “The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.”
10. “Peace is not thought, a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.”
11. “Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.”
12. “Meditation changes your character.”
13. “The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.”
14. “You can’t make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally “
15. “Don’t cling to anything and don’t reject anything.”
