What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.