Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.
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.
If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.