The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.