Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.