People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory..

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self..

I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've e….

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, bec….

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassio….

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world..

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least..

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hid….

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there..

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world..

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photog….

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there ….

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American peop….

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has….

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30..

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on.

I've had an interesting life..

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me….

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it..

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love..

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive..