Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.