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

This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.