With sincerity from the depths of your heart to do the best you can, just keep going and don't worry too much that you're not Milarepa or Rechungpa.

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.

Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

I’m good at being vague and unpredictable. It’s sort of a hard habit to break.

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.