“Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.

New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Give, but give until it hurts.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.