There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

Don't take yourself so personally.