You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

Compassion is a verb.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.