I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?Asher: Because I like you.Lucy: Why do you want me to go?Asher: Because I like you.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

God gave you brain so that you can give him rest.

Humans need fantasy to be human.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.