Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.
Everything you want and you don't have, you get from other people.
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.