"It is best not to silence the mind with a crushing blow of our will." (B Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life", 1993)
"The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for [...] cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful." (B Alan Wallace, Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life", 1993)
"An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience." (B Alan Wallace, "The Four Immeasurables: Cultivating A Boundless Heart", 1999)
"The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness." (B Alan Wallace, "The Four Immeasurables: Cultivating A Boundless Heart", 1999)
"Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential." (B Alan Wallace, "Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training", 2001)
"Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind." (B Alan Wallace, "The Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind", 2006)
"The demarcation between science and metaphysics is determined by the limits of experiential inquiry, not Nature or God." (B Alan Wallace, "The Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind", 2006)
"When attention is impaired, it detracts from everything we do, and when it is well focused, it enhances everything we do." (B Alan Wallace, "The Attention Revolution, Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind", 2006)
"Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening." (B Alan Wallace, "Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity", 2009)
"One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves." (B Alan Wallace, "Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity", 2009)
"It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds." (B Alan Wallace)
"Samsara is not out there, but rather in the way that we experience our environment. To target it precisely, samsara is in the quality of our minds. Our minds are not functioning in accord with reality, and therein lies the problem." (B Alan Wallace)
"Settling your mind in its natural state entails releasing all grasping, grasping onto the future, and the past, grasping onto cogitations about the present. Letting your awareness rest in its own place, naturally luminous and still." (B Alan Wallace)
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