Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
We’re all just walking each other home.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.