Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

May we awaken from the dream that we are different.