We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.