The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.

In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

One who has unreliable friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.