The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.