We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.