The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.