I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.

In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.

Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.