Sometimes we just change the outside -- buy new clothes or different kinds of clothes -- and our appearance changes. How much more if we change from inside -- every person's thinking, all the ideals and all the ways of focusing attention, everything changes. Of course we will look different, we will have changed.

It's not the vegetarian diet that makes you more compassionate, it's not the Method only that makes you noble. It's the way you devote yourself, it's the direction that you focus your new thinking and new way of life that makes you noble and become a new person. Because if we just learn the Method, if we just eat vegetarian, and we do not change our way of thinking, then that doesn't help much. We have to know why we are vegetarian, why we practice meditation; then our whole body, our whole being, our whole brain cells and the cells of the body will understand the purpose. Then we will change completely from the inside out. The conceptions must be clean and then the meditation will bear fruit and the way of life will become an example of goodness, nobility and peace.