"Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down."
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
"How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend yea..."
- Kathryn Hurn
"Somewhere beyond Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible paradise, a place of universal wisdom and ineffable peace called Shambhala . . . It is inha..."
- Victoria Le Page
"I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; t..."
- Kristin Cashore
"The flowers in Tibet were always taller, more fragrant and vivid. Her descriptions, imprecise but unchanging from year to year lead me to an inevitable acceptance that her past was unequaled by our pr..."
- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
"The general kind and soft customs of Mustang were soon to strike me as exceptional. Apart from occasional disputes between husband and wife, which like family rows all around the world bring raised vo..."
- Michel Peissel
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."
- Heinrich Harrer
"No sane person fears nothingness."
- Robert A.F. Thurman
"There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific investigation to stre..."
"Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains."
- Jeffrey Rasley