Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.