If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.