A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

The purpose of life is to be happy.