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.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

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

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.