My enemy is my greatest teacher.

If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.