I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward.
Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.
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.
I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U. S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.