The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

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

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.