The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.