Buddhism

“I’m not myself yet. That’s just it. Not all myself. But I’ve been becoming myself.”

The person you fall in love with soon becomes the object of your craving. But sexual desire is not the same as love, and sexual relations motivated by craving can never dissipate the feeling of loneliness, but only create more suffering and isolation.

If you want to heal your loneliness, you first have to learn how to heal yourself, be there for yourself, and cultivate your own garden of love, acceptance, and understanding.

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”

“Solitude is dangerous. It’s addictive. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people.”