If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

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. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

Our own life has to be our message.