My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.