...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

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.

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

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

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.