Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Confine yourself to the present.

There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.