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

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

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.

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.