The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

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.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.