Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
It is the heart that is important.
When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.
Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.
Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.
That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall. . . For a # controlfreak , it's hard.
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.