11 quotes
The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future."
The Sun My Heart (1996)
We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Our ecology should be a deep ecology—not only deep, but universal.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
We need to protect the ecology of the Earth and the ecology of the mind, or this kind of violence and recklessness will spill over into even more areas of life.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Without the sun, no living being could survive. Without sun, water, air, and soil, there would be no vegetables. The vegetables are the coming-together of many conditions near and far.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
We have to remember that our body is not limited to what lies within the boundary of our skin. Our body is much more immense.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
If the sun were to stop shining, the flow of our life would stop. The sun is our second heart, our heart outside of our body. It gives all life on Earth the warmth necessary for existence.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Real strength is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep, inner peace. If we change our daily lives—the way we think, speak, and act—we change the world. The best way to take care of the environment is to take care of the environmentalist.
The Sun My Heart (1996)
We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of some comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self. If we want to change the situation, we must begin by being our true selves.
The Sun My Heart (1996)