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?

Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

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. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.