We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.