The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.