If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.

When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.