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

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food. Awareness of this fact alone can help us overcome many of our own psychological pains. Eventually our contemplation can help us see how to assist those who need our help so much.

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.