Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

'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.

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.