Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Know that life can only be found in the present moment.
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.
We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.
The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.
Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.
You listen not for the purpose of judging, criticizing or analyzing. You listen only to help the other person to express himself and find some relief from his suffering.
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.