Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.
If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don’t really live their life – they live like dead people.
Be peace, don’t just talk about it.
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.
To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.
Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.
To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.
In English we say ‘we are’ but it’s proper to say ‘we are becoming’ because things are becoming.
We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.
Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.
To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.
Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes.
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.