Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.

Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.