“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

In true love, you attain freedom.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

In true love, there is no pride.

What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

What pains me is that we are having a long distance relationship without a long distance.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We travel great distances to find ourselves when we need to only look within.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.