The essence of poetry is will and passion.
We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.
The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.
Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.
I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!
Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.
No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.
The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.