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

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

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

Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.