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" Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. "

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" If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. "

" With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. "

" If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person. "

" Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself. "

" It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda. "

" Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart. "

" Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. "

" I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food. "

" The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. "

" We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. "

" One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. "

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" I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice. "

" If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy. "

" Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. "

" 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? "

" Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment. "

" When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. "

" Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. "

" Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight. "

" The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. "

" Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. "

" To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people. "

" To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you. "

" In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. "

" We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. "

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" When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born. "