The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.