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

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

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

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.