The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.