There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.