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

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.