Be peace, don't just talk about it.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning. - The Monk (Pg-50)

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

True poverty does not come from God.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.