By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.