The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.