His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.