In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

Through understanding emptiness one is able to overcome attachment, clinging, and grasping.

the universal panacea in the relation to the teacher is devotion

If at that moment we could simply turn our mind to the refuge prayer with this innocent mind,

Even if death were to strike you today like lightning, be ready to die without any sadness or regret, without any residual clinging for what is left behind.

on our worst day, our worst, bad day when we do not get what we want, we are a hundred times better off than so many human beings.

tantric practice, motivation is everything.

The experience of vipashyana awareness has a quality of all-pervasive, thick cream.

really being aware of the whole reason why we need to be free from samsara.

ourselves stubbornly hanging on to our own version—even in the face of evidence contradicting our view.