Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we go.
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.
Let us always pray for one another.
The only journey is the one within.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.
If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.
Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.
Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.