Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.