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.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.