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.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.