Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.