Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.