Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

To me [my marriage to Kim Kardashian] was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn't real or I didn't believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

There is always safety in valor.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.