Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You’re essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.
Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness.
You’ll only know the answers once you love.
The only path wide enough for us all is love.
To understand and be understood is to be at peace.
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.
Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.
Sadness is an invitation to God.
People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.
You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.
Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.
Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you’d have to give away almost everything you own.
You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.
Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.
Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
You have made me a love poet.