Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

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

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

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

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.