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

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.

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

Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

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

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

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.

It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Being around their presence means shit if their heart is miles apart.

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.