Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.