When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.