Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.