The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

I find that being with other people dissipates my energy.

I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

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

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.