If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.