We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.