As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.

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