Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.