When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.