Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
We've had too many World AIDS Days.
I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him. '
Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.
Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat. , Nobis meminisse relictum. ]