"I am the source of my own..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.”

“If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.”

“The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.”

“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”

“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”

“The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.”

“Thought is a means of concealing Truth.”

“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”