True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind.

To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.