To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.