Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.