If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

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.

For success we need to focus with a converging thought process.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.