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 develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life