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Imagine looking back on our lives after we die. We’ll see that so many things didn’t matter. - Homeless Kodo Sawaki
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Love has a powerful healing energy and can work wonders that drugs and therapies, however complex or expensive, can never accomplish. - David Frawley
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Love is just like the fragrance of a flower. It demands nothing. It simply shares. - Osho
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Always take the lowest place. Wear simple clothes. Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you. Patrul Rinpoche
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While it is easy to love the lovable, it may be the unlovable who need our love more. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth. - Ayya Khema
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There’s no problem with being where you are right now. Even if you feel loving-kindness and compassion for only one sentient being, that is a good place to start. Simply acknowledging, respecting, and appreciating the warmth is a way to encourage its growth. - Pema Chodron
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"All the data we have on social justice shows that women and girls are the most vulnerable and face the most oppression. Seventy-five per cent of trafficked people are female. Most of the victims of malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy, and domestic violence are women. Women do 60 per cent of the world’s work, but own 10 per cent of its land. There are millions of young girls waiting for a chance to attend school. Addressing poverty and the environment, as well as population growth can all be addressed in a big way by educating female children." - Ayya Yeshe
(*Ayya Yeshe is an ordained Buddhist nun who works with the poorest of the poor in India - primarily women and girls)
(*Ayya Yeshe is an ordained Buddhist nun who works with the poorest of the poor in India - primarily women and girls)
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Buddhism itself is not especially patriarchal. The problem is that the societies in which it developed are patriarchal. Our innate potential to become liberated is the same, male or female. - Tenzin Palmo
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There are things that seem to be common to patriarchal traditions. One, they’re body denying, and two, a priesthood interprets rather than there being a direct experience. - Gloria Steineim