Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

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.

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

All stress begins with one negative thought.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.