Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.