Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.