If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.