Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.