One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

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

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.