Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.