In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.

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.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.