Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

I do not want to carry any public position.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.