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.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

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