I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.