Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.
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.
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.
It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.
Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.