Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

I do not judge the universe.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.