I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

If there isn't now, there isn't past, if there isn't past there isn't future... What if everything has happen in one day but in different periods???Can I say this??

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking