Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister