When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

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

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.