To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.