“Know your subject, love your subject, have been reflecting on the subject, mulling the subject over in your mind for some time so that the talk, or the lecture when you come to give it, is just the last stage, just the culmination of that particular process.”

(Sangharakshita)

“If a sufficient number of Order members achieve a real Going for Refuge, or even make a genuine effort to achieve it, there will be harmony in the Order. If Order members are in harmony, if you are in harmony, the Order will be strong. It will be able to resist both the dangers from without and the dangers from within.  But more than that, if the Order is spiritually united, if it is in harmony, then a truly wonderful thing will happen. The Order then will be the locus for the manifestation of the Bodhicitta.”

“If one can feel oneself as a member of the [Triratna Buddhist Community] working out that myth, that will give one a much truer idea of what is actually happening or what one is actually involved in.  It has to emerge as different people start becoming aware that the Movement is more than it appears to be.  And that will only happen when they start becoming aware that they are more than they appear to be.” - Sangharakshita, Q&A Bodhisattva Ideal, Seminar, Tuscany 1984

“Everyday you have five things to practise: Keep up the effort to be mindful and aware; remain in as positive a state as possible; do not lose sight of your ultimate goal at any time; apply at every level whatever you have realised or discovered at the highest level of your being; do your best for other people, do what you can to help them. This is your spiritual life and this is your spiritual practice.

"To lead a Buddhist life we need, above all, four things:
A vision of the kind of person we could become;
Practical methods to help us transform ourselves in the light of that vision;
Friendship to support and encourage us on the path;
And a society or culture that supports us in our aspiration."

Sangharakshita, Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow