The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?