Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

The path to joy leads through despair.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Nature did not make me willowy.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else.