If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

If we do not try, we will not know.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.