I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.