It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

If you're doing stand-up, there is no fourth wall; you're engaging an audience.

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.