Lisa Holmes

“I want to share with you a feeling I have. I feel that my love does not have to remain within the limitations of my own life or body. I imagine that if I am no longer in the world, my love could still be present. I want to place my love on the moon and let the moon hold my love. Let the moon be the keeper of my love, offering it to everyone, just as the moon sends its light to embrace the whole earth.” His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje”
― Ringu Tulku, White Tara: Healing Light of Wisdom

“There is no other way to reach enlightenment than by recognizing buddha nature and attaining stability in it. Buddhas of the past did that, and the present-day practitioners who will be the buddhas of the future will do so by recognizing their own nature and attaining stability in it. There is no other way. Nobody else can accomplish enlightenment for us or pull us into liberation. It is completely up to ourselves.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Repeating the Words of the Buddha

“All sentient beings are buddhas, but they are covered by temporary obscurations. When these are removed, they are truly buddhas enlightened.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective

“The root of our problems is within our mind. It is our unskillful ways of thinking. We have to recognize the right ways of thinking, which bring happiness, and the wrong ways of thinking, which bring suffering. With one way of thinking, we have problems in our life; with another way of thinking, we don't. In other words, happiness and suffering come from our own mind. Our mind creates our life.”
― Thubten Zopa, Ultimate Healing: The Power of Compassion