Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see (the terrorists) as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.
My life is pretty simple and normal.
In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.
I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].
I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
