Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

All's well that ends well.

I've always had good energy I've always had good health.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

I always buy the same things. I have about a million sweaters and a million jackets, so I'm sure I'll get some more of that.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.