There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.