“Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.”

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or ‘nowness:’ but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.