In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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.

Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.