"The lives and writings of the mystics of all great religions bear witness to religious experiences of great intensity…"

"From a study of the discourses of the Buddha preserved in the Pali Canon, it will be seen that the idea of a personal…"

"Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying…"

"The relatively small sector of the mind that stands in the intense light of purposeful will and thought is not a reli…"

"During decades of the present life and throughout millennia of previous lives traversing the round of existence, ther…"

"The appearance in the mind of undesirable and ignoble thoughts, even if they are very fleeting and only half-articula…"

"A look into long-neglected quarters of the mind will come as a wholesome shock to the observer. It will convince him …"

"If we observe our own minds, we shall notice how easily diverted our thoughts are, how often they behave like undisci…"

"The method of naming and registering also extends, of course, to noble thoughts and impulses, which will be encourage…"

"Attempts at eliminating the mind’s main defilements—greed, hate and delusion—must fail as long as these defilements f…"