When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.