If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.