Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

Life is available only in the present moment.

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.