To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.