There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.
Success and failure are terrible traps.
You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.
Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.
You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.
No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.
There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.
Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.
Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.
If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.
Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.
There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.
One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.
Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.
Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown
You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body
Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.
You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.
