When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

In true love, you attain freedom.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.