The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

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.