If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.

Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.