I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.