I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.