All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Any idiot can put up a website.

My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.