People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.

You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

When time stops, matter stops.