You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

Merit clears away obstacles.

All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is the only religion that deals with man himself and the nature of the mind - how to deal with yourself and your condition, here and now, as opposed to having to deal with something outside yourself.

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

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.