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

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.

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.

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.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

What an injustice on your life that would be: to base your decisions on fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.