If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
Compassion is a verb.
It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
In the end only kindness matters.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.