| The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. |
| Never underestimate the power of a kind word, a touch, or a smile. |
| Walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth, and not anxiety and sorrow. |
| The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. |
| For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. |
| Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves. |
| We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. |
| If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. |
| Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world. |
| Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. |
| When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. |
| Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything. |
| Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. |
