127 Quotes by Sakyong Mipham

One of the characteristics of every great teacher I’ve known is tremendous exertion. It’s interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion – and their ability to sustain it.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing – that it’s something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

After you run, there’s a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It’s a moment of clarity.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

It’s one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity...