Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Only the present moment contains life.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.