If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

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

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.