Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

You are only as powerful as that which you stand.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.