“All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.”

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’

If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.

In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.

If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.

When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

People have to see it for what it is, but they would be so shocked to know two simple things that I just really never shared with anyone, but I spank my child at times.

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed.

It’s very important to stretch, because while it’s good to look pumped

Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next.

Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.