We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.
Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.
Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.
I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.
It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.