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 the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.

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

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

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.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.