Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.