Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives