Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

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

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.