People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.
We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?
If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.
The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.
To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.
We are always in a hurry to be happy. . . ; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.