The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.