Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.