Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

Tens of thousands of God’s saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.

As long as you are alive and in good health, everything else will come with time through hard work.

Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.