“Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.”

When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.

Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!

You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.

The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.

You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.

You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.

I just wanted to remind people that Ministry is actually a good rock band. We can do some party stuff, too.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.