If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

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

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.

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

My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends, and so I was brought up with the idea that there are many realms of being all around us. So that prepared me for Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism with all its talk of different realms and dimensions of being.

There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.