If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

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.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

Vishnu came in the form of Hitler to be an inspiration for the Kalki to come.

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.