When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.