The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.