If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe