We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

before speaking, notice what motivates your words.

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

The heart is an organ of perception.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.