The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.