What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

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

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

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

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.