We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.

Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.