To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.
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.
When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
Happiness is not an individual matter.
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say “Long live impermanence!”
At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that’s precisely the point.
While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.