Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

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

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.