Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
Actually we've got countless lifetimes, so relax.
We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?
If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.
The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.
To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.