Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.