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.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach.

I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.

I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.

The nature of the mind is completely incredible.