Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.

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.

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!

Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.