“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

The eyes are the window to the soul,

A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.

What great men do, common men follow.

Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.

As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.

If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.

Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

In dark hours, true leaders rise.