Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.