The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.