When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.
Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.
We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art”. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at all.
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
There’s no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.
We need to move beyond the idea of ‘environment’ and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.
The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.
We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.
I vow to live fully in each moment.
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.