We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

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.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.