The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience in future rebirths will be the outcome of the karma that we share with the other beings living there. The actions of each of us, human or nonhuman, have contributed to the world in which we live. We all have a common responsibility for our world and are connected with everything in it.