Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

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.