As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

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

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.