There's never an end for the sea.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

You can’t manage a project. You can only mange your thoughts to come up with better ideas to do the project in a better way.

Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the less equipped we may be to entice such cooperation.

He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.