The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence.Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead. Drink the wine of life. It has so much poetry and so much love and so much juice. You can bring the spring any moment. Just give a call to the spring and let the sun and the wind and the rain enter into you.

How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

The wound was not flowering yet, his heart was still fighting his fate, cheerfulness and victory had yet to shine forth from his chagrin. But he felt hope….

There slowly bloomed and ripened in Siddartha the realization and knowledge of what wisdom, the object of his long quest, really was. It was nothing more than a readiness of the soul, a mysterious knack, the ability at every moment in the midst of life to think the thought of unity, to feel and breathe unity.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.