Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.