In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

World peace begins with inner peace.

I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.