If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it
If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?
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.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.
When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed.
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.