Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That's just the way it goes.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?

I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.