Despite what they sometimes believe, directors and actors aren't really concerned primarily with fame and wealth. The mind of love is very strong, and if they could touch this love, they would become bodhisattvas, and create films that lead people to awakening.

When you already have the energy of mindfulness in you born from your daily practice, you have enough calm and insight to recognize, embrace, look deeply at, and understand your suffering.

Meditation is no longer the work of individuals; meditation in our time should be a collective practice.

When you take a step, if you can enjoy that step, if your step can bring you more stability and freedom,then you are serving the world.

Only listen to and speak with people who nourish love and understanding in you, unless you are speaking with someone with the sole purpose of helping them to transform their suffering and violence.

Priority to speak would be given to those whose voices are not already represented in the decision-making process, such as schoolteachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, parents, union and nonunion workers, business people, artists, writers, children, social workers, experienced mediators, psychologists, and nurses.

It is not about "doing" something, it's about "being" something-being peace, being hope, being solid-every action will come out of that, because peace, stability, and freedom always seek a way to express themselves in action.

The Buddha is still helping us 2,6oo years later.

Understanding suffering is the prerequisite to ending it. In order to understand suffering you have to practice deep, compassionate listening.