True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.