Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!