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?

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.

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

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure, " I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.