1. “…all the interconnectedness of all the computers and everything, it’s the forging of a mass awareness, of where everybody can really know everything that’s going on everywhere in the planet.”
  2. “I am daily making myself what I am.”
  3. “I will let go of the hallucinations of instinctive terror, Enter the recognition of all objects as my mind’s own visions.”
  4. “Hold not the now, stay in the experience of space.”
  5. “The self can become a Buddha, a being of perfect wisdom and compassion; and the environment can become a perfect Buddha-land, wherein no one suffers pointlessly and all are there for the happiness of all.  So where compassion comes is where you surprisingly discover you lose yourself in some way: through art, through meditation, through understanding, through knowledge actually, knowing that you have no such boundary, knowing your interconnectedness with other beings.”
  6. “You can experience yourself as the other beings when you see through the delusion of being separated from them. When you do that, you’re forced to feel what they feel.”
  7. “Materialistic habits of thought reduce the mind to matter and eliminate the soul.”
  8. “Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
  9. When reality crashes with a thousand thunders, May they all become OM MANI PADME HUM!”
  10. “Mantra. Literally meaning “saving the mind,” a mantra is a creative sound considered expressive of the deepest essence of things and understandings, so its repetition can evoke in a formulaic or even magical way a state of enlightenment or positive energy.”
  11. “But apparently, this is a strange paradox of life. When you’re no longer locked in yourself, and as the wisdom, or the intelligence, or the scientific knowledge of the nature of the world, that enables you to let your mind spread out, and empathize, and enhance the basic human ability of empathizing, and realizing that you are the other being, somehow by that opening, you can see the deeper nature of life, and you can, you get away from this terrible iron circle of I, me, me, mine, like the Beatles used to sing.”
  12. “Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.”
  13. “To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.”
  14. “The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha’s insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.”
  15. “Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.”
  16. “On the collective level, we have unwittingly shifted from being a nation of liberators, defenders of freedom, into becoming a nation of arms dealers and mercenaries, fabricating our own weapons of mass destruction and arming tyrants with the tools to oppress their own people.”
  17. “Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.”
  18. “There is nothing more evil than hate. Long years of good work can go to waste because of a single spasm of hate. You may have spent a long time cultivating a relationship, and one day you become confused and perceive that friend is an enemy to your happiness. You suddenly explode in anger, lose control, and hurt your friend verbally or physically. We hear about this every day in circumstances ranging from domestic violence to all-out war.  Enemy: when you look closely, you see that this person is not filled with intrinsic hatefulness. You realize that this man was the helpless pawn of his greed; that this man was trapped in his fear; and hence he acted out toward you. But you should not hate him in return; you should feel compassion for him!”
  19. “Most people we perceive as ‘antagonists’ are merely struggling individuals trapped in their bounded worldview, desperately trying to pursue their own happiness. They are lost souls in desperate need of assistance. And we are enlightened beings capable of reaching out and helping them.”
  20. “It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha’s discovery was happiness and bliss.”
  21. “Our tendency is to think that something religious must be something that makes sense of our natural state that we seem totally inured to and actually almost in a weird way comfortable with which is a state of being semi miserable.”
  22. “The experience we think of as death is the great stripping away.  Death becomes a tremendous vehicle, a benefit, like a boat or something you can sail to the depths of reality with.”
  23. “When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.  What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss.  Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.”
  24. “We are in one long infinite moment that’s all that we are ever in and it has no time to it.  It is both timeless and infinite.”
  25. “Remember we are in the between.”