The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach.

When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,You are free;From all your separations!

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.