It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

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 people knew then that Greg wasn't a monster, just a hungry animal.

Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

I was trying to find a new home in the world.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.