If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both.

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.