We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand...Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.