Quotes from David Michie

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

A reaction is automatic, habitual," Ludo said. "A response is considered.

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

we create our own reality, even if we don't recognise this.

We all face this same choice when dealing with problems. We don't ask for them. We don't want them. But the way we deal with them is what's most important. If we are wise, the greatest problems can lead to the greatest insights.

This proves that it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. —Albert Einstein

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

As long as we kept on practicing loving kindness and creating the grounds for positive future outcomes, we need have no fear of what might arise.

The Buddhist definition of mind as 'a formless continuum of clarity and cognition' is very much in keeping with quantum science theories that matter and energy are two aspects of the same reality.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts and realizing our highest potential.

Thoughts and feelings manifest in the bodies of felines as much as in humans.

Having money means more opportunity to practice generosity," he agrees. "Which is the true cause of wealth.

We're all works in progress. It takes courage to be open about our flaws, but that's what makes us authentic.

We are connected to each other through innumerable lifetimes and in limitless ways.

Little by little it dawned on me that there was a purpose to life. That we had the chance to use this precious existence to develop our most altruistic motives and compassionate instincts. To be the best that we could be!

As outside, so within. Thoughts arose, quite naturally, and I treated them the same as sounds or smells. As always, they would arise, abide, and pass. If I didn't engage with them, there was nowhere for them to remain—they had no power to do so on their own.

It is said that each one of us has been a mother to every other living being, at some time in the past," he gazed at me with open-hearted benevolence. "Imagine, little Snow Lion, if we could all feel that connection, as if it were real?

It's not what happens to you that matters, but the way you interpret things.

Whatever is on our mind, we project onto the world outside us.

Since then I had come to learn that my unhappiness had been inflicted not by Chogyal but, unintentionally, by myself. By wallowing in my own nostalgic memories, spending so much time thinking about a relationship that had moved on, I had been needlessly carrying pain. Suffering.

Casting a stone into a tranquil lake has a much greater impact than throwing the same stone into a turbulent sea. So, too, the understanding of a settled mind.

If it's transformation we seek, the feeling of giving must be authentic. It must touch our heart.

Yoga means to unite. To join.