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Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.