In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.