When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.