The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"