As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.

A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.