Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

There are wonderful beings in this world.

Other people may tell us, "Oh, you're so much nicer." Of course you can't hope that other people will tell you that you're so much nicer, but that's always a good sign. Perhaps people find that you're easier to live with.

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.