Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Surrender is a powerful force.

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.