Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.