What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.
Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.
I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.