Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.