The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.