You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.