The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

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.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.