When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.