To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.