All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.