When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

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

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.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

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