For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

We glorify God when we celebrate people

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.