"Sleep is the best meditation...." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“We don't need to respond with desperate violence.”

“The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

“What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.”

“Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.”

“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.”

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”

“Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.”

“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.”

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.”