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

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

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

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

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.