In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.

We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful.

We're reborn every second, every moment.

When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction was, oh yes dear, and when are you leaving? She didn't say, oh how could you leave me, your mother? Or wait a bit dear until you get a bit older and you know your own mind. She just said, well, when are you going? And that was because she loved me, not because she didn't love me.

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