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

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.