If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

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

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

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.