“The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.”

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Your presence is a miracle.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.