We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

I'm glad that I'm female.

If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.