One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.