Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.