The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.