It's important to lighten up a bit!

When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have and have wasted time. Still though, I look back on my life and I think that really, I am very happy that I lived my life the way I have and I would never ever have wished it any other way - especially, the six years with my lama and then the 18 in Lahul.

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.

It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.

The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

I'm glad that I'm female.