Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

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

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.