We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.