A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

Every man is his own worst enemy

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Even Donald Trump's hairpiece is fed up with his insults and says it now supports Bernie Sanders. When Trump found out, he sobbed

I may be an optimist.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.