In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

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.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.